Overview

• Mohammed, 50, his wife and 18-year-old son have been sleeping rough in tents outside the Stockport Homes offices for 10 days while the wife remains unwell.
• They declined an offer of temporary housing outside the borough to avoid relocating to an unfamiliar area.
• Stockport Homes reports that one rough sleeper has accepted a housing offer but the other two, including Mohammed’s family, have turned down their allocations.
• Thousands of local residents are bidding for a limited stock of social homes, exacerbating the borough’s housing crisis.
• Stockport Council expects to spend up to £1 million on hotel accommodation for homeless residents this year due to the ongoing shortages.