Changes in people seeking local authority housing assistance in England 2019, by area

Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 17, 2021

This statistic illustrates how the overall flow of people seeking housing assistance from their local authority has changed over the last 12 months in England as of 2019, broken down by region. It can be seen that 39 percent of local authority respondents in the Midlands stated that the overall flow of people seeking assistance had increased significantly over the past year, 13 percent more than the average for England as a whole.

Has the overall flow of people seeking assistance from Housing Options or homelessness service changed over the past year?

Characteristic	Yes- increased significantly	Yes- increased slightly	No- remained reasonably steady	Yes- decreased slightly	Yes- decreased significantly
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Release date

May 2019

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

October to November 2018

Number of respondents

167 Local authorities

Special properties

Local Authorities in England*

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*Additional information from the source: "Survey design was also informed through consultation with national experts in the field, as well with Crisis and Joseph Rowntree Foundation colleagues. Following two sets of general reminder messages, and bespoke prompting of contacts who had participated in the survey in previous years, responses were filed by 167 authorities or 51 per cent of all authorities – see Table 1247 In terms of its regional distribution the achieved sample is appropriately representative of England"