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Today, the greatest need probably means the statutory duty to rehouse a family in emergency accommodation, for instance in a bed and breakfast, or a family granted asylum now living in a hotel. It could be, as we have just heard, a mother and her children fleeing domestic violence, a family whose illegal HMO’s licence has just been cancelled by the local authority and closed, or someone whose health is seriously prejudiced by their poor housing conditions. There is not even enough housing for them, and that is before you get to the groups that might previously have expected to go to our social housing.