THE Big Issue Group has teamed up with organisations, trade unionists and MPs to call on the government to tackle the “cycle of poverty” in Britain.

The poverty-fighting organisation has launched a campaign demanding affordable housing, an end to in-work poverty and the creation of millions of green jobs.

Long-term solutions are needed to meet the housing crisis, low wages and the climate crisis, and to help Britain protect the environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing of future generations, the Big Issue said.

Big Issue Group founder Lord John Bird said: “Young people and future generations deserve a fair shot at life. Together, we can build a better future.”

Housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa, who publicly shamed housing association giant Clarion into repairing his vermin-infested, mouldy and damp family home last year, said: “It’s clear now more than ever why affordable housing is needed.

“With the rate of homelessness and hidden homelessness rising as well as the cost of rentals. Things are becoming more and more expensive.

“There are over one million people on the waiting list for a social home and it’s growing at a faster rate than the government is building.”