In February 2020 we reported on new official figures on rough sleeping that suggested a 9% fall in those counted or estimated on the streets on a single night.
While charities welcomed the apparent decline, there are concerns that counting on a “given night” in autumn does not show the full scale of rough sleeping across England.
Figures obtained by the data unit and published a day earlier suggested 25,000 rough sleepers encountered in one year by three quarters of councils.
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Rough sleeping snapshot in England: autumn 2019
- A copy of the XLS file is in this repo.
- CSV: Rough sleeping numbers by region and year, 2018-19
- CSV: Rough sleeping numbers by year, 2010-19
- Boris Johnson, prime minister
- Lucy Abraham, from London charity Glass Door
- John Healey, shadow housing secretary
- Robert Jenrick, Housing Secretary
- Line chart: Number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping outside on one night in Autumn, 2010-2019
- Grouped bar chart: Number of rough sleepers on a single night, by region - 2018 vs 2019
This is the 11th story the data unit have done related to homelessness. You can see all homelessness-related stories tagged 'homelessness' here