FOI request (FOIR-523936664)

Temporary accommodation

Requested Wed 14 June 2023
Responded Fri 23 June 2023

This request is about the use of temporary accommodation and referrals to PRS accommodation which is in a local authority area other than your own for households which have been accepted as homeless both under prevention and relief duties.

Unless otherwise specified the requests relate to the financial year 2022/2023.

1. Please provide a list of the locations (local authorities) where you have placed households for temporary accommodation.

2. Please confirm how many households were placed in temporary accommodation outside of your local authority area.

3. Please provide data on the ethnicity of those who were placed in temporary accommodation outside of your local authority area.

4. Please provide a list of the locations (local authorities) where you have assisted households into PRS accommodation.

5. Please confirm how many households were assisted into PRS accommodation outside of your local authority area.

6. Please provide data on the ethnicity of those who were assisted into PRS accommodation outside of your local authority area.

7. Please provide confirmation as to whether you hold stock of temporary accommodation within another local authority district. If yes, please confirm how many units and which local authority these are in.

8. Please provide confirmation as to whether you have specified PRS landlord contacts within another local authority district. If yes, please confirm how many landlords and which local authority these are in.

Response

1. Ashford, Brighton and Hove, Dartford, Dover, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Medway, Rother, and Tunbridge Wells

2. 133x households

3. Main applicant:

1x Any other Asian background

2x Any other ethnic group

2x Any other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background

3x Any other White background

1x Asian/Asian British: Bangladeshi

1x Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: African

23x Don't know/refused

3x Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African

3x Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean

4x Other ethnic group: Arab

89x White: English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British

1x White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller

4. None, Hastings Borough Council does not make 'referrals' into PRS accommodation outside of the borough.

5. None, Hastings Borough Council does not make 'referrals' into PRS accommodation outside of the borough.

6. None, Hastings Borough Council does not make 'referrals' into PRS accommodation outside of the borough.

7. We do not hold 'stock' of temporary accommodation in another borough, but we do 'place' people in temporary accommodation in other boroughs that are owned and managed by other providers.

8. As we do not 'refer' households into PRS accommodation outside of the borough, we therefore do not have any PRS landlord contacts.