Highlighting a rise in rough sleeping across England of 30 per cent between autumn 2014 and autumn last year, the Most Revd Justin Welby also told the Radio Times the experience of homeless people was captured in the "sobering" recent film I, Daniel Blake.
He went on to say: "Sadly, homelessness is still with us - sometimes on the streets and sometimes in overcrowded hostels or emergency shelters."
The Archbishop pointed to the example of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in central London which has held an annual Christmas appeal for the homeless - broadcast by the BBC - since 1925.
He added: "What can we do [about homelessness]? The answer is, continue to help one another, just as the Rev Dick Sheppard did when - like a certain innkeeper in Bethlehem - he opened his doors to strangers.
"Good things happen when we work together. While no one would wish to celebrate 90 years of homelessness, 90 years of good work, trust and kindness is indeed something to shout about."