Statutory Homelessness: 3rd Quarter (July to September) 2008, England

Published	11 December 2008
Type(s)	Statistics
Site	Corporate
ISBN	9781409809524
Price	Free

Summary

The latest national statistics on Statutory Homelessness for the third quarter (July to September) 2008 were released on 11 December 2008 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The key points from the latest release are:

Household acceptances

14,340 applicants were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty during the July to September quarter, 13 per cent lower than during the same period in 2007.
On a seasonally-adjusted basis, there were 14,060 acceptances, 9 per cent lower than the previous quarter.
The quarterly level of acceptances is 60 per cent lower than the same period during 2003, the year of the most recent peak.

Households in temporary accommodation

72,130 households were in temporary accommodation on 30 September 2008, 3 per cent lower than at the end of the previous quarter, and 13 per cent lower than the same date last year.
Temporary accommodation has now fallen for twelve consecutive quarters, and is 29 per cent lower than the peak during 2004.
87 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.

Correction to Table 1 - the financial year series showing the breakdown of decisions were corrected on 6 January 2009, having initially been printed wrongly in Table 1. Newly released quarterly data is not affected, and financial year data has not changed since last quarter's Release.

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