30-04-2023, 07:29 PM
Maya Oppenheim
Sun, 30 April 2023 at 5:51 pm SGT
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9,343 of the 34,070 single mothers living with at least one child in temporary accommodation in England were living out of their own local authority area between July and September 2022.
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the rise in out-of-area places was due to the lengthy waits for affordable social housing – leaving some waiting for years – and because housing benefits for low-income earners has not kept up with surging rent prices.
Some 1.21 million families were on local authority waiting lists as of 31 March 2022 – up from 1.19 million in 2020/21. This has caused an increase in homelessness and has meant people are "blocking" temporary accommodation places because they are unable to move on
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many were placed in housing that is "uninhabitable” due to overcrowding, toxic mould, and cold temperatures.
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27,480 households were living in temporary accommodation in another area at the end of September 2022, with single mothers making up around a third of these.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/homeless-singl...48082.html
Sun, 30 April 2023 at 5:51 pm SGT
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9,343 of the 34,070 single mothers living with at least one child in temporary accommodation in England were living out of their own local authority area between July and September 2022.
......
the rise in out-of-area places was due to the lengthy waits for affordable social housing – leaving some waiting for years – and because housing benefits for low-income earners has not kept up with surging rent prices.
Some 1.21 million families were on local authority waiting lists as of 31 March 2022 – up from 1.19 million in 2020/21. This has caused an increase in homelessness and has meant people are "blocking" temporary accommodation places because they are unable to move on
......
many were placed in housing that is "uninhabitable” due to overcrowding, toxic mould, and cold temperatures.
......
27,480 households were living in temporary accommodation in another area at the end of September 2022, with single mothers making up around a third of these.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/homeless-singl...48082.html