Rough sleepers and the numbers of registered homeless quoted are 2 different things. 'Registered Homeless' went up under the nasty, evil, wicked, bad, Tony Blair Labour administration that's still loathed by all committed broflakes everywhere to this day, because The Homelessness Act 2002 was...
Sadly this map confirms what we see on a daily basis - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45162892
Highest levels of rough sleeping on the south coast - Brighton & Hove, Hastings and Eastbourne.