Almost One In Ten People Have Been Homeless

Nine per cent of adults in England have experienced homelessness at some point in their life, research has revealed. The findings are from state-of-the nation report The Homelessness Monitor: England – an independent study published annually by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that analyses the impact on homelessness of economic and policy developments. England has the highest rate of homelessness of all the UK countries with 9% of adults saying they have been homeless and 2.2% saying this happened in the last five years, new analysis for the study found. Young adults, people of black or mixed ethnicities and those from deprived areas were more likely to have been homeless. Homelessness has risen for three consecutive years.  Download a copy of the report from the Crisis website.