LGA study reveals growing council spend on homeless accommodation

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Rising numbers of people who are homeless are being placed in bed and breakfasts due to a severe shortage of social housing, council leaders have warned.New analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) revealed this was forcing councils to spend more than five times as much money on accommodation as they were a decade ago.Currently, there are 10,510 households in bed and breakfasts - according to provisional data - compared with 2,310 a decade ago, more than a 350% increase.Latest figures showed that councils in England spent £142m placing homeless households in bed and breakfasts in 2019-20 compared with £26.7m in 2010-11- a 430% increase.