{"id":141269,"date":"2024-07-02T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=141269"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:47:26","slug":"council-spending-on-homelessness-tripled-since-2015-lga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/council-spending-on-homelessness-tripled-since-2015-lga\/141269\/","title":{"rendered":"Council spending on homelessness\u202fhas\u202ftripled since 2015, warns LGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>LGA\u202fanalysis of the\u202fRevenue Account Budget Data shows that council spending on homelessness for 2023\/24\u202fwhen\u202fcompared with 2015\/16\u202fhas increased by 42%\u202f\u2013\u202fabout \u00a3733m<\/h2>\n<p>The percentage of councils\u2019 total housing budget being spent on homelessness and temporary accommodation\u202fhas tripled since 2015, new analysis from the LGA reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that councils spent \u00a3315m on homelessness in 2015\/16 &#8211; in 2023\/24 they are spending \u00a31.048bn but may be more when official figures are released.<\/p>\n<h3>At least 113,000 households are waiting for social housing<\/h3>\n<p>In 2015\/16, 18% of\u202fcouncils&#8217; total housing budgets were allocated to\u202fhomelessness, whereas in 2023-24\u202fspending\u202fon homelessness\u202fnow\u202faccounts for 60% of total housing budgets, which means councils have less money\u202fto\u202finvest in and run homelessness\u202fearly\u202fprevention services.<\/p>\n<p>The LGA\u202fwarned that\u202fcouncils are\u202fspending\u202fat least\u202f\u00a31.75bn annually on supporting\u202fnearly 113,000\u202fhouseholds in temporary accommodation\u202fdue to a lack\u202fof\u202fsocial housing.<\/p>\n<p>Without a concerted effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/plannings-role-in-solving-the-social-housing-crisis-and-tackling-homelessness\/118824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">address the\u202fsevere\u202fhousing shortages<\/a>, and increase councils\u2019\u202fstock of available\u202fsocial housing,\u202fthese figures are\u202flikely\u202fto rise\u202ffurther\u202fwith an even higher percentage of councils housing budgets being spent on\u202fhomelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore,\u202fas part of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/local-government-white-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Local Government White paper<\/a>, the\u202fLGA is calling on whoever forms the\u202fnext government to give councils and combined authorities the powers to build more affordable, good quality homes at scale for people in the areas where they are needed.<\/p>\n<h3>Recommendations to the next government include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reform of Right to Buy to support 1:1 replacement of existing social housing to avoid continued net loss of stock. This should include allowing councils to retain 100% of sales receipts; flexibility to combine receipts with other government grants; the ability to set the size of discounts locally; and exempting new build.<\/li>\n<li>Abolition of permitted development rights and reform of viability assessments for proposed housing developments, with all planning applications required to deliver affordable housing requirements as per Local Plans.<\/li>\n<li>Bring forward new legislation to ban Section 21 \u201cno fault\u201d evictions of renters.<\/li>\n<li>Further investment in social housing by allowing local government continued access to preferential borrowing rates through the Public Works Loan Board for housing, with each additional \u00a35m provided through this scheme estimated to provide up to \u00a3150m in savings and additional investment into social housing.<\/li>\n<li>An increase in Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) grant levels per unit to deliver more new affordable homes and ensure inflationary pressures do not jeopardise continued delivery.<\/li>\n<li>A commitment to uprate LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local rents beyond 2025\/26.<\/li>\n<li>An immediate increase in the subsidy for temporary accommodation, so that it is no longer frozen at 90 per cent of 2011 LHA rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Increasing affordable housing stock is necessary to reduce council spending on homelessness<\/h3>\n<p>Cllr Claire Holland, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomelessness pressures on councils\u202fare\u202fspiralling\u202fas a larger proportion of their budgets is\u202fput towards\u202fcostly temporary accommodation\u202fdue to a lack of social housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to\u202fproperly\u202fresolve\u202fthe\u202fissue is to\u202faddress the\u202fshortage\u202fof\u202fsuitable housing\u202facross the country\u202fand build up councils\u2019\u202fstock of social housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouncils\u202fneed to be given\u202fthe\u202fpowers and resources to build affordable homes their communities need so they can\u202fresume their historic role as a major builder of affordable homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGA\u202fanalysis of the\u202fRevenue Account Budget Data shows that council spending on homelessness for 2023\/24\u202fwhen\u202fcompared with 2015\/16\u202fhas increased by 42\u202fper cent\u202f\u2013\u202fabout \u00a3733m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":141281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[172844,666,276,829],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-2024-general-election","9":"tag-affordable-housing","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-homelessness"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Council spending on homelessness\u202ftripled since 2015, LGA warns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LGA\u202fanalysis shows that council spending on homelessness for 2023\/24\u202fwhen\u202fcompared with 2015\/16\u202fhas increased by 42\u202fper cent\u202f\u2013\u202fabout \u00a3733m\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/council-spending-on-homelessness-tripled-since-2015-lga\/141269\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Council spending on homelessness\u202fhas\u202ftripled since 2015, warns LGA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LGA\u202fanalysis shows that council spending on homelessness for 2023\/24\u202fwhen\u202fcompared with 2015\/16\u202fhas increased by 42\u202fper cent\u202f\u2013\u202fabout \u00a3733m\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/council-spending-on-homelessness-tripled-since-2015-lga\/141269\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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