Housing policy and strategy

Number of homeless approaches received

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24
April	271	314	277	353
May	273	305	366	446
Jun	300	327	310	423
July	309	361	288	391
August	286	385	379
September	344	361	348
October	352	297	370
November	296	256	347
December	219	205	271
January	350	266	374
February	277	270	365
March	318	343	435

Number of homeless applications received from singles

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24
April	84	99	84	110
May	71	96	123	136
June	70	74	91	144
July	96	105	87	96
August	69	107	121
September	140	85	90
October	103	89	102
November	96	90	106
December	63	82	66
January	86	84	98
February	106	117	92
March	147	108	153

 

Number of homeless applications received from families

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24
April	65	69	55	80
May	57	61	64	121
June	79	75	80	103
July	75	98	81	96
August	77	84	85
September	62	64	114
October	59	57	105
November	57	34	90
December	40	53	67
January	75	50	81
February	56	71	82
March	84	61	99

 

Number of main duty acceptances

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24
April	88	32	24	38
May	45	30	25	61
June	36	43	26	90
July	33	22	50	52
August	38	24	40
September	38	34	62
October	32	55	15
November	35	31	43
December	25	28	40
January	25	29	37
February	25	29	34
March	34	8	72

Number of homeless preventions in the prevention and relief stage

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24
April	62	50	52	57
May	49	52	56	50
June	44	46	50	52
July	45	51	43	68
August	49	55	46
September	58	63	47
October	61	44	60
November	58	47	68
December	37	38	27
January	56	48	58
February	54	67	57
March	53	34	87

Number of temporary accommodation units in and out of borough

	In borough	In borough	Out of borough	Out of borough
	2022/23	2023/24	2022/23	2023/24
April	1152	1231	1560	1719
May	1149	1233	1567	1719
June	1156	1225	1536	1763
July	1165	1227	1542	1781
August	1171		1539
September	1190		1551
October	1193		1561
November	1207		1596
December	1208		1594
January	1210		1630
February	1222		1643
March	1226		1665

Number of singles and families in temporary accommodation

	Singles	Singles	Families	Families
	2022/23	2023/24	2022/23	2023/24
April	661	736	1990	2214
May	638	729	2081	2223
June	641	754	2051	2234
July	652	756	2055	2252
August	655		2055
September	675		2065
October	671		2083
November	688		2115
December	682		2120
January	684		2156
February	702		2163
March	710		2181

Number of applications on waiting list by category as of the beginning of the financial year

	Homeless	Transfer	Housing Register
April 2021	2188	1655	430
April 2022	2354	1200	452
April 2023	2508	1263	573

 

Number of Homeless households moving into social housing

Month	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24
April	1	15	19	18
May	2	33	16	28
June	26	19	27	27
July	33	24	25	36
August	18	24	22
September	11	14	20
October	18	16	28
November	25	12	16
December	28	18	22
January	14	18	22
February	36	10	12
March	42	34	22

Number of recorded rough sleepers in Westminster following street count, broken down by cohort

Date	Rough Sleepers	UK & ROI	EEA Nationals	Rest of the world
May 2020	109	74	58	18
July 2020	228	65	110	13
August 2020	266	68	131	20
November 2020	242	88	119	18
January 2021	111	56	23	12
March 2021	106	50	30	7
May 2021	167	52	75	14
July 2021	171	73	60	14
September 2021	187	80	68	11
November 2021	187	68	84	7
January 2022	119	66	25	5
March 2022	178	75	63	11
June 2022	229	98	79	20
July 2022	280	86	118	18
September 2022	227	77	84	16
November 2022	250	76	118	20
January 2023	182	59	59	12
March 2023	243	62	116	18
May 2023	215	75	85	30
July 2023	234	65	118	22

Additional information about rough sleeping figures in London is available from the London Datastore.