'It Could Be One of Us': Authority to Spend £3.2m on Temporary Homes
ENGLAND, JUL 22 – England has 131,140 households and 169,050 children in temporary accommodation, more than double the numbers from 2015, driven by housing shortages and rising private rents.
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Number of households in England in temporary accommodation hits new record high
Some 2,300 households with children had been living in B&Bs for more than six weeks as of March 31. The number of households in temporary accommodation in England has climbed to a new record high, despite a drop in families living in bed and breakfast lodgings. Some 131,140 households were in temporary accommodation – a form of homelessness – at the end of March, according to data published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Governm…
Housing crises intensifies with further increase in temporary accommodation use - Murky Depths
The housing crises got worse at the beginning of this year according to new figures out today. A day after Kier Starmer stated “there’s lot of houses” for councils to came news that households in temporary accommodation increased to 131k households and 169k children up to March 2025, with people often housed in poor conditions at extremely high cost to the taxpayer. That coincided with Zoopla stating private rents have risen by 21 per cent in th…
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