Accommodation provided for young homeless England (UK)

This statistic shows alternative accommodation arranged by Local Authority housing departments for young homeless people across England in August 2014. 33 percent of such young people went into supported accommodation, and 9 percent with friends or relatives.

Distribution of young people whose homelessness was prevented or relieved by the local authority in England in August 2014, by alternative accommodation type*

Characteristic	Share of young people at responding local authorities
Supported accomodation	33%
Private rented sector accomodation with landlord incentive schemes	21%
Any form of hostel or House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) with or without support	18%
Social Housing**	14%
Accomodation arranged with friends or relatives	9%
Private rented sector accomodation without landlord incentive schemes	4%

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Release date

November 2014

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

September 2014

Number of respondents

60 respondents

Special properties

Local authority housing departments

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*Methodology: two surveys were conducted online in September 2014 with local authority housing departments and voluntary sector homelessness providers, with 211 usable responses returned. For this question, 60 usable responses were returned by local authority housing departments, giving data about young people under 25 using their services in August 2014.
**Social housing combines the following categories: Social housing - part 6 offer of LA own accommodaion or nomination to an RP; Social housing - negotiation with an RP outside Part 6 nomination agreement; Social housing - management move of existing LA tenant.
*Percentages not equalling 100 may be due to rounding.

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