FOI request (FOIR-637242426)

Temporary accommodation

Requested Thu 08 August 2024
Responded Thu 29 August 2024

Please can I request the following information to be sent back via email under the Freedom of Information Act.

1. The average length of time households spent in temporary accommodation (including bed and breakfast, and hotels) after making a homelessness application to the council:

a. between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024

b. between 1st April 2024 and 31st July 2024

2. The average length of time households with children spent in temporary accommodation (including bed and breakfast, and hotels) after making a homelessness application to the council:

a. between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024

b. between 1st April 2024 and 31st July 2024

3. Whether the figures you provide take into account households being moved from one temporary accommodation to another. Or whether it is reflective of the amount of time the same households are spending in temporary accommodation (even if it is 4 hotels and so on, over time).

Response

1a. 173 days

1b. 201 days

2a 49 days

2b 54 days

3. Based on overall time household is in temporary accommodation.