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• Statutory Homelessness: 1st Quarter (January to March) 2009, England

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Summary

The latest national statistics on Statutory Homelessness for the first quarter (January to March) 2009 were released on 11 June 2009 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The key points from the latest release are:

Household acceptances

• 11,350 applicants were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty during the January to March quarter.
• This is 26 per cent lower than during the same period in 2008.
• On a seasonally-adjusted basis, there were 11,440 acceptances, 9 per cent lower than the previous quarter and 67 per cent lower than the last peak in 2003.

Households in temporary accommodation

• 64,000 households were in temporary accommodation on 31 March 2009, 17 per cent lower than the same date last year, and the largest year on year decrease since figures peaked in 2004.
• Temporary accommodation has now fallen for fourteen consecutive quarters, and is just over one third lower than the same date in 2004.
• 88 per cent of households were in self-contained accommodation. 4 per cent were in bed and breakfast hotels.

The full statistical release and accompanying tables, including regional and local authority data, are available below.

Details of officials who receive pre-release access to the statistical release up to 24 hours before publication can be found below.

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• Statutory Homelessness: 1st Quarter (January to March) 2009, England
  PDF, 381 kb , 21 pages
• Statutory Homelessness: 1st Quarter (January to March) 2009, England
  MS Word, 346 kb , 21 pages
• Tables 1-10 - Statutory Homelessness: 1st Quarter (January to March) 2009, England
  MS Excel, 377 kb , 11 pages
• Supplementary tables - Local Authority Breakdown - Statutory Homelessness: 1st Quarter (January to March) 2009, England
  MS Excel, 257 kb , 2 pages
• Pre-release Access list: Statutory Homelessness
  PDF, 55 kb

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