![]() While in London and the South – where homelessness is traditionally higher because of a lack of affordable housing– rates have slightly decreased by 8% and 4% respectively.In the Northern regions – where poverty, destitution and problems with poor housing are more acute – homelessness has risen by 20%.Crisis is calling on the government to take a longer-term approach to tackling homelessness, starting with addressing the severe shortage of social housing and ensuring that housing benefit continues to cover the true cost of rents.Īcross the country, the research suggests that areas that the government has placed at the heart of its “levelling up” agenda have experienced the biggest increases in homelessness over the last five years: On any given night, the research shows, one in 185 people are still without a home.įollowing the Chancellor’s warning that the economic emergency brought on by the pandemic has only just begun, and with unemployment expected to peak at 2.6 million next year, the charity warns that the progress made in 2020 to tackle homelessness is at risk of being undone. The fact that, despite this unprecedented effort, so many will still be without a home this Christmas, shows how grave England’s homelessness situation has become. This comprehensive annual study, commissioned by Crisis and carried out by Heriot-Watt University, shows that for the last five years homelessness has been rising year on year, reaching a peak just before the pandemic when the numbers of homeless households jumped from 207,600 in 2018 to over 219,000 at the end of 2019.Ī slight reduction this year follows bold government action in response to the pandemic, to support people sleeping rough and in other insecure situations to move into emergency accommodation including hotels. More than 200,000 households will be experiencing the worst forms of homelessness this Christmas, including sleeping on the streets, hunkered down in sheds and garages, stuck in unstable accommodation such as B&Bs or sofa surfing far away from their support networks, new research from national homelessness charity Crisis reveals today. State of homelessness in England revealed as Crisis prepares to open their Christmas services ![]() More than 200,000 households across England will be homeless this Christmas
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