![]() ![]() Household bills are also significantly higher since the Russian invasion.īetween June 2022 to June 2023, domestic gas prices increased by 36% and domestic electricity prices by 17%. ![]() Inflation has soared in the UK since, and despite a recent drop, prices are still 7.9% higher than they were last year.įood prices have been rising sharply over the past year and were 17.3% higher in June 2023 compared with a year before, according to the ONS. The worrying homelessness trend coincides with the cost of living crisis, which was made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February last year. Of the 104,510 households in temporary accommodation by the end of March – a high since records began in 1998 – 64,940 were households with children.īoth of these figures are up by about 10% on the same period last year. The latest figures, released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, have been described as “very worrying” by Riverside, an organisation which describes itself as the largest provider of accommodation for people affected by homelessness. Tenant sofa-surfing at 74 as she struggles to find flat amid soaring rents ![]()
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