ONS homelessness data

The Office for National Statistics has just published the latest official homelessness data. Key points below. Any thoughts, send them across ASAP as this story is BREAKING.

Between July and September 2022:

• 75,860 households were initially assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness and owed a statutory homelessness duty, up 4.4% from July to September 2021.
• 34,130 households were assessed as being threatened with homelessness, and therefore owed a prevention duty which is up 5.8% from the same quarter the previous year. This includes 6,170 households threatened with homelessness due to service of a Section 21 notice to end an Assured Shorthold Tenancy – an increase of 34.4% from the same quarter the previous year.
• 38,190 households were initially assessed as homeless and therefore owed a relief duty, up 2.9% from the same quarter the previous year. Households with children owed a relief duty increased 7.9% from the same quarter the previous year to 10,740 households in July to September 2022.
• 12,330 households were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty, up 18.1% from July to September 2021. This reflects the increase in households with children owed a relief duty this quarter (7.9%) and last quarter (16.4%) compared to previous year.
• On 30 September 2022, 99,270 households were in temporary accommodation, which is an increase of 3.9% from 30 September 2021. Temporary accommodation figures for households with children increased by 6.0% to 61,820, and single households increased by 0.6% to 37,450. Compared to the previous quarter, the number of households in temporary accommodation has increased 3.7%.