New Horizons chief executive, Phil Kerry, reveals the rising scale of homelessness across the capital. When we talk about homelessness, most Londoners have a fixed idea about what this means. It normally involves a man inside a sleeping bag outside a station, just as you may have seen on your commute today. That is, of course, a very real and troubling aspect of homelessness. They are at the very sharp end. But most Londoners will not know that in our great city, 1 in 50 people are living in temporary accommodation or homeless, according to London Councils — that statistically one of the commuters on your tube carriage might not have somewhere they can call home; or that in your average classroom, there is a child experiencing homelessness.