Martin has degrees in Law and (at Masters level) Urban Policy & Regeneration.
Temporary accommodation model
Martin Walker
29 Nov 2023
Introduction
A template ‘Temporary accommodation model’ for demonstrating the financial case for investing capital to reduce the revenue costs of temporary accommodation.
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.
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.
View our recorded webinar where we introduced and walked through the model for the benefit of councils grappling with homelessness and temporary accommodation pressures in their areas.
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.
We would be very happy to chat through how this could be used in your area too: please don’t hesitate to contact us via the form on this page or contact martin.walker@localpartnerships.gov.uk . We’d be delighted to help.
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