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FOI request (FOIR-433064909)
Number of households presenting as homeless that claim Universal Credit
Requested Wed 29 June 2022
Responded Wed 21 September 2022I write to request information on the number of households claiming Universal Credit and/or housing benefit who have presented to you as homeless while between January 2019 and April 2022.
As part of this request, I would like this information to be broken down into the following:
(i) The total number of households claiming Universal Credit presenting as homeless since January 2019, broken down into households living in leasehold property and council-owned property (otherwise known as council tenants) and years;
(i) The total number of households claiming housing benefit – part of the legacy welfare system – presenting as homeless since January 2019, broken down into households living in leasehold property and council-owned property (otherwise known as council tenants) and years.
Response
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your Freedom of Information request.
Please see attached spreadsheet.
Hastings Borough Council has a very small number of council owned properties, most of which is used as temporary accommodation. The council's housing stock was transferred to 1066 Housing Association (now Optivo) in 1996 as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT).
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