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<p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures
no family is without a roof over their head. The numbers of households in temporary
accommodation remains well below the September 2004 peak.</p><p>Local authorities
have a duty to ensure that any accommodation provided for a homeless household under
the homelessness legislation must be suitable. In considering ‘suitability’ authorities
must, by law, consider whether the accommodation is affordable for the applicant,
its size, its condition, its accessibility and also its location.</p><p>In 2012, we
changed the law so that councils can place families in decent and affordable private
rented homes. This now means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled
accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>In addition, we
have allocated £550 million until 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping,
as well as supporting the Homelessness Reduction Act, including: protecting £315 million
of funding to local authorities and £149 million of central government funding for
homelessness programmes.</p><p>We have also replaced the Department for Work and Pension’s
Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant
which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness.
This amounts to £402 million over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>DCLG publishes
regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness, temporary accommodation
and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at national, London and
local authority level . The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a>.</p><p>
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