- Councils in England spent a record £2.9bn on temporary accommodation in the year to April, amounting to over £8m every day.
- Expenditure on emergency accommodation has risen by 88 per cent over the past five years, though the recent 4 per cent annual increase indicates a slowdown in growth.
- Emergency B&Bs and nightly paid self-contained housing accounted for 65 per cent (£1.78bn) of the total spent by local authorities.
- Housing charities and local government representatives have called on ministers to unfreeze housing benefit rates and increase social housebuilding.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently pledged £442m in a bid to end rough sleeping alongside plans to deliver 70,000 affordable dwellings.
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