FREE WEBINAR : Temporary Accommodation Model

Dealing with homelessness puts enormous pressures on council budgets, and the lack of suitable properties means that vulnerable individuals and families are often housed in temporary accommodation, including hotels and hostels.

Our new Temporary Accommodation Model

Local Partnerships (with financial support from the LGA) has developed a new temporary accommodation model – which we have developed and piloted in a live setting in Manchester.

Join us on Wednesday 29 November at 10am-11am, for a free webinar where we will introduce and walk through the model for the benefit of councils grappling with homelessness and temporary accommodation pressures in their areas. You willl hear direct from Manchester City Council’s Director of Housing Operations on his experience of using the Temporary Accommodation Model and the benefits it can offer to your council. 

Government figures released in July 2023 show that, nationally, over 100,000 households were found to be living in temporary accommodation – up 10 per cent from 12 months previously and again the highest figure on record.

The purpose of the model is to: 

• provide councils with an order of magnitude assessment of the likely future profile, over a defined time period, of household types and numbers that will require temporary accommodation, and the consequential cost to the council’s revenue budget
• set the counterfactual position for ‘invest to save’ propositions and allow their impact to be estimated and subsequently evaluated
• enable changes in some of the main contributory factors to rising temporary accommodation spend (i.e., housing affordability, housing demand and housing supply), to be monitored and evaluated as well as help with budget management