Councils Spend Near £500m On Temporary Accommodation

24housing’s exclusive FoI sample of council spending on temporary accommodation exposes an eye-watering £487,712, 733 paid out over the past year. The bulk of that total covered costs in London where Newham Council topped the chart on £61,069,621. But where London boroughs – with a handful of exceptions – were well up into eight figures, councils sampled beyond the capital hovered around lower sevens at most. However, Birmingham City Council – which responded outside of the sample’s timeline – spent £18,648,890 on PRS accommodation over 2017 and has had to commit some £63m from reserves to balance its budget. Read more on 24housing.

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