Some of England’s largest councils have seen huge jumps in the number of homeless people asking them for help. The official figures show that 37 councils of the 51 which provided information for both 2009/10 and 2010/11 reported rises in homelessness. They had made an average of 40 per cent more homelessness decisions in the last financial year and granted 25 per cent more applications. They include England’s largest council landlord, Birmingham, which saw the number of decisions it made following homelessness applications rocket by 66 per cent from 5,123 in 2009/10 to 8,499 in 2010/11. The number of successful applicants jumped by 25 per cent from 3,371 to 4,207. Read more on Inside Housing.
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