Local Authority Temporary Accommodation Use and Cost

Local Authority temporary accommodation use and cost

Please provide data and figures electronically in the form of an Excel spreadsheet and send through to:

Ben Sanders, Research Officer [email protected]

1. What is the mean average cost per night for each of the below types of temporary accommodation in the 2013-2014 financial year?

Temporary Accommodation Mean average cost per night Hostel places (please £27.85 separate support costs) B&Bs £26.00 Refuges Not held LA/HA stock Not applicable Private sector lease by LA or £28.39 HA Other private sector Not applicable accommodation

2. How many temporary accommodation units do you have access to? If possible please break this down by:

Temporary Accommodation Number of units Hostel places 307 (adults) 92 (young people) B&Bs 79 Refuges LA/HA stock None Private sector lease by LA or 1153 HA Other private sector Not used as TA accommodation 3. For homeless application cases closed in 2013/14, from their first night in temporary accommodation, how many nights did households accepted as homeless, regardless of when the application was made, spend in the below types of temporary accommodation, how many households this was for and what was the maximum length of stay in temporary accommodation for any one household(s)?

Please break down the figures for (a) one person households and (b) all other household types (excluding one person households).

We do not hold this information broken down by number of nights in accommodation or household type- IT would not be reasonable for us to create reports to provide this information. However, the P1e’s do show the number of households with dependant children on 31/3/15 and then ‘other’ household type can be deducted from that total. These ‘other’ household types would be single people, couple and households made up of any number of adults.

ENGLAND Other Households Households with Maximum number of dependant children nights in TA Temporary Number Number of Number Number of Single Other Accommodation of nights Other of nights households household households type households s Hostels 14 0 B&Bs/annexes 131 199 (self contained) Refuges 0 0 LA/HA stock 0 2 Accommodation 165 517 leased from private sector by LA/HA Other PRS 156 272 (Seaside Homes)

3. How many people overall approached your local authority for advice about homelessness (i.e. those who made a homelessness application plus those who were assisted via other means)?

This data is BHCC Housing Options Service only- City Wide prevention data is available on P1e’s 2014-15:- Advice cases-3011 Prevention Casework- 1069 Homeless Applications -1422