Latest official homelessness data

The latest ONS homelessness data has just been published. Full report here but key points below. Any thoughts, send them over ASAP as this story is BREAKING.

• 83,240 households were initially assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness and owed a statutory homelessness duty, up 5.7% from January to March 2022.
• 37,890 households were assessed as being threatened with homelessness, and therefore owed a prevention duty which is down 0.7% from the same quarter last year. This includes 6,440 households threatened with homelessness due to service of a Section 21 notice to end an Assured Shorthold Tenancy – a decrease of 1.5% from the same quarter last year.
• 41,950 households were initially assessed as homeless and therefore owed a relief duty, up 10.7% from the same quarter last year. Households with children owed a relief duty increased 12.1% from the same quarter last year to 11,250 households in January to March 2023.
• 13,670 households were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty, up 20.1% from January to March 2022. This reflects the increase in households with children owed a relief duty this quarter (12.1%) and last quarter (19.6%) compared to the previous year.
• On 31 March 2023, 104,510 households were in temporary accommodation, which is an increase of 10.0% from 31 March 2022. Households with children increased by 10.3% to 64,940, and single households increased by 9.6% to 39,570. Compared to the previous quarter, the number of households in temporary accommodation had increased by 4.0%.