![]() “I’d barely spent any time alone with our daughter,” the 42-year-old recalls. But, then, his grandmother in southern Portugal contracted a severe case of pneumonia.ĭuque’s wife, who is Indian, had just resumed working at Samsung, after seven months of maternity leave. People in low paid jobs, living in poverty and poor quality or insecure housing are more likely to experience homelessness.In summer 2018, Ricardo Duque was about to begin five months of paternity leave from the architecture firm where he worked in London. ![]() Some people are more at risk of being pushed into homelessness than others. ![]() Many stay in hostels, squats or B&Bs, in overcrowded accommodation or 'concealed' housing, such as the floors or sofas of friends and family. This is why Crisis carries out its annual study on core homelessness. ![]() Many people who are not entitled to help with housing, or who don't even approach their councils for help, aren't counted in the official statistics. Local authorities may initially provide temporary accommodation to households who might meet these criteria, mainly families with children. However, in order to receive assistance under the main homelessness duty, there are further strict criteria that you have to meet. To be legally defined as homeless you must either lack a secure place in which you are entitled to live or not reasonably be able to stay. Every year, tens of thousands of people apply to their local authority for homelessness assistance. This is often referred to as the main homelessness duty. Local authorities have a duty to secure a home for some groups of people. The longer someone experiences rough sleeping the more likely they are to face challenges around trauma, mental health and drug misuse. Rough sleeping is the most visible and dangerous form of homelessness. The Homelessness Monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK. (Source: The Homelessness Monitor Great Britain, 2022) Read more If nothing changes, in 2023, 300,000 households could face the worst forms of homelessness. (Source: Heriot Watt University research). Homelessness reached a peak in 2019, when the numbers of homeless households jumped from 207,600 in 2018 to over 219,000 at the end of 2019.īy the end of 2021, 227,000 households across Britain were experiencing core homelessness. This includes more than 200,000 households in England alone.įor the last five years, ‘core’ homelessness has been rising each year in England. On any given night, tens of thousands of families and individuals are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness across Great Britain. Known as core homelessness, it includes rough sleeping, people living in sheds, garages and other unconventional buildings, sofa surfing, hostels and unsuitable temporary accommodation such as B&Bs. This is because homelessness is recorded differently in each nation, and because many people experiencing homelessness do not show up in official statistics at all.Ĭrisis carries out an annual study in response to concerns that many people experiencing homelessness are not being accurately recorded in official statistics. There is no national figure for how many people are homeless across the UK.
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