The charity has called on the Department for Education and Skills to amend the Children's Bill so that housing departments are included in all information-sharing arrangements.
It said that despite new duties being laid down in the 2002 homelessness act, joint working between the two departments and health authorities continued to be fragmented.
In a report, Healthy Relationships, it concluded that while there has been some improvement in social services departments due to partnerships created by the Supporting People programme, links between housing and health were still poor.
Joint inspection and monitoring arrangements needed to be established to ensure that joint working arrangements were put into practice.
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