Record numbers of homeless households are being placed in
emergency accommodation often far from their previous home and miles from jobs,
schools, family and friends, a housing charity has said. It follows the
publication of the latest Office for National statistics quarterly figures
which show that the number of homeless families in “bed and breakfast”
accommodation – often in hostels – is at a five-year high. The housing charity
Shelter warned that the spiralling increases in rent, coupled with caps on
housing benefit payments, were making it harder for councils to find homeless
families a safe and decent place to live in their local area. The figures show
the 15,260 homeless households were rehoused in a different local authority
between July and September, a rise of 123% in three years. Download the figures
from the CLG website.
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