{"id":22116,"date":"2023-10-11T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2023-09-25T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:14:05","slug":"englands-homelessness-hits-record-high-for-households-residing-in-temporary-accommodations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/englands-homelessness-hits-record-high-for-households-residing-in-temporary-accommodations\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Homelessness Hits Record High for Households Residing in Temporary Accommodations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt don\u2019t feel like a proper home, and it don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d said ten-year-old Cameron in a candid YouTube video posted by\u00a0<\/span>Shelter<\/span><\/a>. Cameron was referring to his life in a hostel in Great Britain, one of the places classified as a temporary accommodation.<\/span><\/p>\n Cameron\u2019s dad, Glenn, along with the other children in the family, try to get by in the confined one-bedroom space, which poses an elongated list of challenges ranging from a non-functioning toilet to cramped sleeping quarters, from dirty carpets to conflicts caused by overcrowding and noisy neighbors. This is the reality, not just for the man behind the camera in the video, but also for hundreds of thousands more households now classified as \u201cunintentionally homeless\u201d in England.<\/span><\/p>\n According to\u00a0<\/span>Shelter Scotland<\/span><\/a>, you must meet a strict criterion to qualify as \u201cunintentionally homeless\u201d in the UK. This means that the actions that drove you into homelessness were determined to be \u201cbeyond your control.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, if you become\u00a0<\/span>homeless<\/span><\/a>\u00a0due to non-payment of rent or mortgage and the government determines you could have afforded to make that payment, you are not classified as \u201cunintentionally homeless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This is an important distinction because England\u2019s government shoulders a level of responsibility for unintentionally homeless individuals and families.<\/span><\/p>\n Under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996, anyone deemed unintentionally homeless has a right to temporary or secure accommodations. Often, households dwelling in temporary living spaces such as hostels or rooming houses are waiting on lists to secure more permanent housing situations.<\/span><\/p>\n It should be duly noted that if the legal counsel deems a household to have fallen into homelessness through avoidable circumstances, such as being able to pay rent but refusing to do so or being evicted for antisocial behavior, they are not provided temporary accommodations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, it can be deduced that all households residing in government-issued, temporary living facilities became homeless due to circumstances they could not control. They likely fit one or more of the following descriptions:<\/span><\/p>\n This also marks the highest rate since authorities began keeping residency records of temporary accommodations. That data was first collected in 1998, according to\u00a0<\/span>CNN Business<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to this record-breaking increase in the number of households living in hostels and other temporary facilities, there was also a notable increase in priority placements. These are households classified as having a more dire need of immediate housing, such as little Cameron\u2019s household, which consists of several small children.<\/span><\/p>\n A growing waitlist and a higher needs list combined with the highest house price tags in market history could spell disaster for the 38,000 households deemed vulnerable to homelessness in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n While numerous secondary causes fuel the notorious uptick in unintentional homelessness, experts agree that the key issue here is housing, or, more accurately, the lack thereof.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnce again, we see the crippling cost that years of no investment in housing benefit, and a shameful lack of social house building, is having by trapping families in temporary accommodation,\u201d declared homeless charity leader Matt Downie in a briefing with CNN reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n The World Economic Forum<\/span><\/a>\u00a0warns that if affordable housing construction doesn\u2019t become a global priority, 1.6 billion people could be crushed under the weight of a global housing crisis in a very short time \u2013 as early as 2025, to be precise.<\/span><\/p>\n This means a massive increase in homelessness worldwide, attributed almost entirely to the fact that the average house price is triple the median wage rate. In some places, like the United States, that average is higher still, with rental rates and mortgages outpacing wages fourfold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n England, now, is on the heels of other global regions, breaking records for all the wrong things.<\/span><\/p>\n Thankfully, there\u2019s still time to turn things around. The WEF website projects we could avoid the crisis by building 96,000 affordable homes each day worldwide. The UK government has set its sights on constructing approximately 1 million affordable homes in the next four years. Be sure to remind your representatives of how important this issue is to you.<\/span><\/p>\n Every homeless person in every corner of the globe needs a safe, permanent, affordable home. Urge your representatives to pass legislation reflecting this incentive and support policies that make housing a human right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A drastic uptick in rental rates and mortgages coupled with a chronic\u00a0housing shortage\u00a0has posed record-breaking consequences in England, where more than one hundred thousand households were placed in temporary accommodations for the first time in recorded history. \u201cIt don\u2019t feel … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":22117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[8893,15953,7482,17595],"coauthors":[8785],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Defining Terms of Homelessness: Who Is Unintentionally Homeless in England?<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The Number of Unintentionally Homeless Households in England is the Highest It Has Been in Two and a Half Decades<\/span><\/h3>\n
The Lack of Affordable Housing is Becoming a Global Crisis<\/span><\/h3>\n
Talk to Your Representatives About Building Affordable Homes As Soon as Possible<\/span><\/h3>\n