According to a new estimate, more than 200,000 households will experience the worst forms of homelessness this winter, including sleeping on the streets and living in sheds and garages. The homeless charity Crisis released its annual report, which was based on research from Heriot-Watt University.
- According to a YouGov poll conducted by Shelter, 104,000 people in privately rented houses have received eviction notices or are behind on their rent and are at risk of losing their homes in the last month.
- In the previous three months, Shelter estimates that 55,000 children and their families have been evicted.
- More than 90 percent of homeless households in England are hidden from view, according to a new report by the homelessness charity, Crisis. More than nine in ten (95 percent) of homeless families are living in insecure, temporary accommodation, it says.
- The economic damage of the pandemic is set to be long-lasting, and millions are expected to be out of work by early next year, there is real risk homelessness will increase unless urgent action is taken.
- Homelessness in London has increased by 20 percent over the last five years, according to a report by London Councils.
- 63,000 London households, two-thirds with children representing 90,000 individuals, would not spend the winter holiday period in their own permanent home. The figure for those in temporary accommodation in the capital is the highest for 15 years.
- The number of people living in temporary accommodation jumped by 6,000 in the first three months after the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by Shelter.
- Homelessness has increased by 16 percent in the northwest of England and the Midlands it has grown by 400 percent and 300 percent respectively over the last five years. One in every 52 people in the UK live in London and 68 percent of those in temporary housing are in the capital.
- This is the first time in UNICEF’s more than 70-year history that it has made such a gesture to provide relief for people living in Britain. Such funds are necessary in the fifth richest country in the world that is socially polarised to an extent not seen since the Second World War.
- And of those surveyed, 11 percent said their children worry about becoming homeless.
The shelter is urging the public to support its frontline advisers to help as many families as possible to find or keep hold of a safe home. “No child should have to worry about losing their home, let alone 200,000,” says Shelter chief executive Polly Neate.
