Online housing agents, Sellhousefast.uk, sought to investigate the temporary accommodation crisis and found 78,930 households were placed in temporary accommodation at the end of December 2017. This signifies an increase of 4.2% on 2016 figures, taken from the same quarter.
Of the 78,930 households in temporary accommodation at the end of December 2017, 22,150 (28%) were in accommodation in another local authority’s district. This is an increase of 1% from 21,920, for the same period recorded in 2016. Altogether, the number of households placed in temporary accommodation outside of their local authority has increased by 201% over the last six years.
The March 2018 quarterly statistics marks the twenty-sixth time that the number of households in temporary accommodation is higher than in the same quarter of the previous year.
In breaking down the data and analysing the results, Sellhousefast.uk discovered (outside of London) Birmingham has the highest number of households in temporary accommodation – at 1,951 in quarter 4 of 2017. This total is followed by Brighton and Hove (1,666), Manchester (1500) and Luton – with 1,279 households in temporary accommodation.
Numbers drop to lower levels thereafter, yet districts in England such as Milton Keynes (726), Bristol (479) and Broxbourne (475) continue to highlight just how many individuals require temporary accommodation services.
The top five districts in England with the lowest rate of households in temporary accommodation were found to be Mendip (6), Rushcliffe (6), Vale of White Horse (6), Bassetlaw (5) and Lancaster (5.)
