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Historical trend
Trend summary
Around 110,000 households were assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness in 2023–24 under the Homelessness Reduction Act.
Trend
- Statutory homelessness assessments have risen each year since the Homelessness Reduction Act came into force in April 2018.
- The most common reasons for homelessness decisions include loss of private rented accommodation and family or friend exclusion.
- The number of households in temporary accommodation exceeded 100,000 for the first time in the year to March 2024.
Context
- MHCLG publishes statutory homelessness statistics quarterly; figures cover local authority assessments under the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act.
- The Act widened the duty on local authorities, so figures are not directly comparable with pre-2018 data.
Trend summary generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 on 19 December 2024. Contains no editorial judgement — describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only.