Friday, 11 December 2009

Statutory Homelessness: 3rd Quarter 2009

The latest national statistics on Statutory Homelessness for July to September 2009 were released on 10 December 2009, under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. The key points are:
*10,360 applicants were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty during the quarter.
*This is 28 per cent lower than during the same period in 2008.
*56,920 households were in temporary accommodation, 21 per cent lower than the same date last year, and the largest year on year decrease since the peak in 2004
*The number of households in temporary accommodation has now fallen for sixteen consecutive quarters. Find the full statistical release on the CLG website, link below.


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