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The study Homelessness Projections: Core homelessness in Great Britain, by Professor Glen Bramley of Heriot-Watt University, for the charity Crisis, predicts that homelessness will rise by more than a quarter over the next ten years. The number of rough sleepers will rise by 76 per cent, it says, from 9,100 to 16,000, and to 40,100 by 2041. The report – based on panel surveys, statutory statistics, and academic studies – says that, at any one time across Britain in 2016 160,000 households were experiencing “core homelessness”, comprising “sofa surfing” (68,300), staying in hostels, shelters and refuges (42,200), being placed in unsuitable temporary accommodation (19,300), rough sleeping, staying in a car or tent, and squatting. The scale of core homelessness had increased in Britain by 33 per cent since 2011, with much of the increase coming from the use of “unsuitable” temporary accommodation.
Housing	Church Times – August 2017



More than a million private renters currently have to claim housing benefits to help cover the cost of their rent. Many of them are already in work, but owing to high rents and slow wage-growth, they cannot meet the cost of even the cheapest homes without additional support.
Housing	Church Times - June 30 2017



More than a million households in Britain are at the risk of becoming homeless by 2020, owing to the benefit freeze and the escalating cost of rents in the private sector, a report from Shelter suggests.
Housing	Church Times - June 30 2017



House prices have ‘stagnated’ as a Brexit squeeze on household finances and a slower pace of job creation continue to dampen demand. The Halifax house price index showed house prices between February and April were 0.2 per cent lower than in the previous three months, the first quarterly fall since November 2012. Halifax added house prices fell by 0.1 per cent between March and April and there has been ‘virtually no change’ in prices over the last three months.
Housing	The Sentinel - May 9th 2017



A report published by the Department of Communities and Local Government estimated there were 3,569 rough sleepers in England in the Autumn of last year. This figure, while likely to be lower than the real number of rough sleepers, is still a 30 per cent increase on the number of recorded rough sleepers in Autumn 2014, and almost twice the 1,768 recorded in 2010.
Housing	The Sentinel - March 22nd 2016



An Ipsos MORI Scotland for Shelter Scotland shows that 90 per cent of people in Scotland think that the children of today will find it harder to buy or rent a home than the generation before them.
Housing	Ekklesia Daily Bulletin - 14th March 2016



Council tenants will no longer be assured of a home for life if a change in the law is pushed through Parliament. The Government wants to restrict the secure tenancies offered by local authorities to five years, with no automatic renewal when they expire. Councils have already been given the power to introduce their own limits to secure tenancies, but the new law will abolish lifetime tenancies altogether.
Housing	The Sentinel - 6th January 2016



The price of the average UK home will rise by 50% in the next ten years, it is claimed. The forecast by the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association Residential Letting Agents says that average prices will rise from £280,000 to £419,000 by 2025.
Housing	The Sentinel - 18th December 2015



Housing experts today condemned Government plans to cap benefits for people living in supported and sheltered schemes. Announced in Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review, the changes to the local housing allowance (LHA) could mean vulnerable people are at risk of losing out in their weekly benefits. This would leave many specialist housing schemes, supplied by social housing groups such as the Aspire Group and Sanctuary, unviable and at risk of closure.
Housing	The Sentinel - 26th January 2016



Nearly 100,000 children in England are living in temporary accommodation after being made homeless. Charities blamed housing benefit failing to keep pace with rent rises.
Housing	The Sentinel - September 25th 2015



New research has found that more than one in four adults in Scotland who are responsible for paying rent or a mortgage are worried about covering the cost of their housing in 2016.
Housing	Ekklesia Weekly Digest - 7th January 2016



Vulnerable teenagers are frequently being evicted from local authority housing provided for them, a Children’s Society report reveals. The report states that 1,000 vulnerable teenagers across the country are being evicted from accommodation provided by their local authorities or made to leave at short notice every year.
Housing	Youthwork - November 2015



Research from Centrepoint has revealed that 18 per cent of young people aged 16 to 25 have slept rough in the last year. The survey of 2,000 young people showed that close to one in five young people had slept in cars, on night buses or on the street. Of this 18 per cent, two in five had done so for just one night. Centrepoint also said that the number of young people sleeping rough in London has doubled since 2011.
Housing	Youthwork - January 2015



House prices have reached a new all-time high of £186,512 on average after leaping by 11.1 per cent in 12 months, figures from building society Nationwide show. The new peak seen in May surpasses a previous record set in October 2007, before the financial downturn took hold, when property values reached £186,044 across the UK. The latest increase in house prices marks the strongest annual growth since June 2007. The figures sparked more speculation further steps could be taken to rein in the housing market.
Housing	The Sentinel, June 4, 2014



A quarter of young people in the UK now live with their parents, official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said more than 3.3 million adults between the ages of 20 and 34 were living with parents in 2013, 26 per cent of that age group. The number has increased by a quarter, or 669,000 people, since 1996. This is despite the fact that the number of 20 to 34-year-olds in the UK remains almost the same, the ONS said. In 1996, the earliest year for which comparable statistics are available, there were 2.7m 20 to 34-year-olds living in the family home – 21 per cent of the age group at that time. The ONS also found that young men were more likely to live at home than women.
Housing	The Sentinel, January 22, 2014

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