Newham is top of the list for number of homeless people, where 1 in every 24 people face housing insecurity.
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Newham has topped the list for number of homeless people, according to a new study.
According to the survey conducted by housing charity Shelter, one in every 24 people face housing insecurity in the borough.
The study also shows shows a 4% increase in Homelessness across Britain, with 320,000 people homeless, 13,000 more than 2017.
Newham is closely followed by Haringey where 1 in 29 is homeless and Westminster with 1 in 31.
In the capital as a whole, 170,000 people – equivalent to one in 52 – have no home.
But it is homelessnnot just in the capital where ess is rising.
Areas such as Luton, where 1 in 52 people are homeless, Birmingham 1 in 88 and Manchester 1 in 154 also feature in the top 50.
The figures demonstrate how homelessness and housing insecurity is spreading beyond London into the wider south-east and Midlands.
The majority of those affected, 295,000, are in various temporary accommodations after being accepted as homeless by their local authority.
It is Shelter’s third annual analysis of homelessness.
In 2016, it estimated there were 255,000 homeless people in England alone, a figure it subsequently adjusted to 294,000 for Britain. This rose to 307,000 in 2017.
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Newham has topped the list for number of homeless people, according to a new study.
According to the survey conducted by housing charity Shelter, one in every 24 people face housing insecurity in the borough.
The study also shows shows a 4% increase in Homelessness across Britain, with 320,000 people homeless, 13,000 more than 2017.
Newham is closely followed by Haringey where 1 in 29 is homeless and Westminster with 1 in 31.
In the capital as a whole, 170,000 people – equivalent to one in 52 – have no home.
But it is homelessnnot just in the capital where ess is rising.
Areas such as Luton, where 1 in 52 people are homeless, Birmingham 1 in 88 and Manchester 1 in 154 also feature in the top 50.
The figures demonstrate how homelessness and housing insecurity is spreading beyond London into the wider south-east and Midlands.
The majority of those affected, 295,000, are in various temporary accommodations after being accepted as homeless by their local authority.
It is Shelter’s third annual analysis of homelessness.
In 2016, it estimated there were 255,000 homeless people in England alone, a figure it subsequently adjusted to 294,000 for Britain. This rose to 307,000 in 2017.
