Council Spending On B&Bs For Homeless Increased By 430% Over Last Decade

Local authorities are spending over five times more on housing homeless people in B&Bs than they were a decade ago, research by the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Official figures show that councils in England spent £142m placing homeless households in B&Bs in 2019/20, up 430% from £26.7m in 2010/11. There are currently 10,510 households living in B&Bs, according to provisional data, compared to 2,310 a decade ago, marking a 355% increase. The LGA said these figures underline “the desperate need to build more social housing”. Read more on Inside Housing.

Inside Housing - News - Council spending on B&Bs for homeless increased by 430% over last decade, research shows