In new data, it’s been revealed that overall spending on homelessness has increased by 10.5% since 2021/22 and a majority of councils have reported their costs have gone up.
You seem to have me confused with someone arguing about refugees. I quoted the net migration. That means when you add up everyone who left, and everyone who arrived, 504,000 people were added to the UK. They need to sleep somewhere. Do you want them to sleep in tents?
The first sentence is “The rise is driven by people arriving legally from outside the EU and the resumption of post-pandemic travel.”
Are those usually the homeless?
You seem to have me confused with someone arguing about refugees. I quoted the net migration. That means when you add up everyone who left, and everyone who arrived, 504,000 people were added to the UK. They need to sleep somewhere. Do you want them to sleep in tents?
I’d believe you, except…
"The latest house building statistics show that in the financial year ending March 2022 there were 204,530 dwellings completed in the UK. "
The average UK household has 2.36 residents. That still leaves a deficit of more than 21,000 people. And this gap compounds year on year on year.