The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has
published statistics providing information on statutory
homelessness applications, duties, and outcomes for local
authorities in England. It also reports on households in
temporary accommodation.
A summary of local authority performance on statutory
homelessness measures can be explored using the performance
dashboard: January to March 2022.
Download: Statutory homelessness
in England: January to March 2022
Between January to March 2022:
• 74,230 households were initially assessed as homeless or
threatened with homelessness and owed a statutory homelessness
duty, up 5.4% from January to March 2021.
• 37,260 households were assessed as being threatened with
homelessness, and therefore owed a prevention duty which is up
15.1% from the same quarter last year. This includes 6,400
households threatened with homelessness due to service of a
Section 21 notice to end an Assured Shorthold Tenancy – an
increase of 141.5% from the same quarter last year. This may
partially reflect the removal of restrictions on private rented
sector evictions from May 2021 that were in place the same
quarter last year.
• 36,970 households were initially assessed as homeless and
therefore owed a relief duty, down 2.8% from the same quarter
last year, driven by a 9.2% fall in single households (households
without children) owed a relief duty. Households with children
owed a relief duty increased 21.1% from the same quarter last
year to 9,760 households in January to March 2022.
• 11,060 households were accepted as owed a main homelessness
duty, up 12.5% from January to March 2021. This reflects the
increase in households with children owed a relief duty this
quarter and last quarter compared to the previous year.
• On 31 March 2022, 95,060 households were in temporary
accommodation, a similar level to 31 March 2021. Households with
children fell by 0.7% to 58,910, while single households
increased by 0.4% to 36,150. Compared to the previous quarter,
the number of households in temporary accommodation had fallen
1.3%.
, Labour’s Shadow Homelessness &
Rough Sleeping Minister, responding to the latest
homelessness statistics which were published today by the
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, said:
"These latest damning figures are the result of years of Tory
failure to tackle homelessness, and a cost-of-living crisis that
threatens to make things even worse.
"Despite rising numbers of people being threatened with
homelessness, neither nor have even mentioned
homelessness during this leadership contest. They are dangerously
out of touch with the lives of families for whom every day is a
battle to keep a roof over their heads.
"The number of people facing eviction through no fault of their
own is skyrocketing. These families cannot afford more dither and
delay from the Government. That is why Labour has called for an
immediate ban on no-fault evictions, to give renters the
protections they desperately need now."
