The figures identified that 4,840 households with newly granted refugees were homeless between January and March this year, 348.1% more than over the same period last year, reports Inside Housing. An additional 1,270 refugee households were at risk of homelessness, after qualifying to receive homelessness prevention duty in the first quarter of 2024. This is […]

Daily 5% visitor beds surcharge that will cover hotels, bed and breakfasts and AirBnB could raise up to £50m a year, reports the Guardian. Councillors in Edinburgh are hoping to build new council houses and improve public parks thanks to a new tourist tax that could raise up to £50m a year. The city council […]

The number of people rough sleeping in the city in recent months has reached unprecedented levels, reports the Liverpool Echo. Homelessness should be “rare, brief and non-recurring” across Liverpool but a new plan to tackle the city’s housing crisis has laid bare the scale of the challenge ahead. As part of its statutory duties, Liverpool […]

Latest housing data show 151,630 children in temporary accommodation – the most since records began, reports the Guardian. More than 150,000 children in England are living in temporary accommodation, prompting calls for the government to address what it calls a “national scandal”. Living in temporary accommodation is considered a form of homelessness and can involve […]

In just a year, more than 9,200 ex-prisoners left jail only to become homeless, reports the Independent. The number of people released from prison into homelessness has risen 30 per cent in a year despite a major new scheme to house departing offenders, The Independent can reveal. New government figures laying bare the dire state of prisons […]