FOI request (FOIR-630246175)

Homelessness

Requested Fri 12 July 2024
Responded Thu 08 August 2024

This Freedom of Information request concerns the destinations of households placed out of area into other local authority locations by your local authority.

The goal of the research is to help understand the pressures faced by local government in the face of a crisis in affordable housing.

I would be grateful if you would provide the following information for the financial year 2023/24:

The number of households accepted as homeless both under prevention and relief duties that were accommodated by your local authority in a different local authority area. This would include placed into temporary accommodation, the private rented sector, and property owned/held by your own local authority.

Specifically, this request is not to ascertain the total number, but the number of households placed into to specific local authority areas.

Response

Out of area housing placements - 2023/24

1x Ashford

3x Brighton and Hove

1x Dover

1x East Riding of Yorkshire

109x Eastbourne

5x Lewes

1x Maidstone

6x Medway

11x Rother

1x Tunbridge Wells