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Council spending on temporary accommodation triples in eight years
A homeless person sleeping rough in a doorway, February 7, 2017

COUNCIL spending on temporary accommodation has tripled in the last eight years, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

The LGA’s analysis of revenue account data showed that spending on emergency accommodation has spiralled from £315 million to 2015-16 to £1.048 billion in 2023-24

Research by Generation Rent found that some councils were spending 50 per cent of their core budgets on temporary accommodation, while the number relying on it had risen by 89 per cent over the past decade. 

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