Ministers need to start making up for lost time and launch a high-profile public campaign alongside the energy companies.
It is not a fix-all, but I hope its measures will produce a real improvement in the number of people who become homeless in the first place.
The report I have been working on over the past year will provide the Government with a clear strategy to help tackle rough sleeping.
The fifth in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and aiding those in deep poverty.