Overview

• The total number of households in temporary accommodation reached 132,410 at the end of June, up 1.2% on the quarter and 7.6% year on year.
• Households with children in temporary accommodation have increased every quarter since 2021, according to the official release.
• At the end of June, 3,340 households with children were in B&Bs and 3,590 in hostels, while 33,530 families were in nightly‑paid or privately managed placements, with family B&B use down 43.5% from a year earlier.
• Shelter, Crisis and others call for immediate measures including restoring local housing allowance to cover at least the bottom third of rents and setting a target of 90,000 social rent homes a year.
• The government cites £1bn for 2025/26 with an extra £84m for winter prevention, plans to build 1.5 million homes, £39bn for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, and the scrapping of Section 21 evictions.