A record number of homeless children lives in temporary apartments, while activists decipher the national scandal

“This is a national scandal”

Enough children to fill the Etihad more than three times, lived in a temporary apartment last winter, the highest number that was available.

A total of 165,510 children were homeless and lived between October and December 2024 in temporary apartments such as hotels and B&BS. This is from 163,970 children in the previous quarter and 159,380 in the three months to July – recently under the conservative government.

The bleak state of things was unveiled in newly published figures from the department for recording, living space and municipalities. They also show that the number of homeless households in temporary accommodations – which are made up of them with and without children – has increased further since the election.

In the last three months of 2024, compared to 125,970 between July and October and 112,610 at the same period of 2023, there were a total of 127,890 households in temporary excavations.

Despite the general increase in the number of homeless families who live in temporary accommodations, the number of long -term in contractions. There were a total of 3,110 homeless families who had lived in B&B at least six weeks at the end of 2024.

That went back from 3,470 in the three months to October and 3,770 in the three months to July, which was the record high. The last two quarters have been the first since the pandemic in which the number of homeless households with children who have been living in temporary apartment for over six weeks have fallen.

A total of 7,819 children in our district were homeless in the Greater Manchester and lived in a temporary apartment between October and December 2024. This is in advance of 8,342 children in the previous quarter, but still higher than the 6,542 children in the same period 2023.

With 12.3 households in 1000 who live in temporary apartments, Manchester has one of the highest prices in the country outside of London. Greater Manchester has recorded a decline in the number of families in B&B for over six weeks, but the number is still on a near Record high.

There were a total of 3,110 homeless families across England, who had lived in temporary accommodation for at least six weeks at the end of 2024. In the three months to October and 3,770 this decreased in the three months to July, which was the record high, after 3,470. The last two quarters have been the first since the pandemic in which the number of homeless households with children who have been living in temporary apartment for over six weeks have fallen.

In Greater Manchester at the end of last year over six weeks in B&B in B&B, this is from 202 in the three months to October (which was the record high), but is still higher than the 87, which were in B&B for six weeks in December 2023.

Oldham has the highest number of families in B&BS in the long term in our district, with 56 households being there in December for six weeks.

As the men reported in September, data from the homeless charity Shelter showed that amazing 4,000 children in all of Manchester – one of 33 children – were homeless.

It was the fourth highest homelessness of children in England outside of London. Last month, the men reported how 1,146 children in Salford lived in temporary accommodations from 329 in April 2021.

The heads of the council members said that high private rental fees, lack of affordable housing options and the increasing costs for fuel and food are behind the increase, which has led to a significant number of people who end up in desperate situations. This includes Chloe, a 23-year-old from Oldham, who became homeless during pregnancy.

In February, she spent two months to live with family members and sofa before she was found in a hostel in Harpurhey, North Manchester. But she was just a few weeks before she was said she should move to a hostel in Openshaw, East Manchester. As he lived there, Chloe became a mother of Evie.

Weeks later she was moved to a hotel in her hometown before she was said she should pack her bags again. Now you and Little Evie call a Betsibe in the house of the city center of Oldham next to a night club.

“They were able to call me in five minutes and say that they are moving this evening,” said Chloe. “It doesn't matter that I'm on the road now, I would have to go back and move all my things.”

The latest figures show how the crisis since the Manchester Evening News first worsened a worrying increase in family homelessness and the horrific conditions for small children in 2018.

Seven years later, the government and the municipal councils have difficulty dealing with the problem, and continues to accommodate endangered families in inappropriate accommodation.

The minister of homelessness, Rushanara Ali, said: “The years of failure that this government has inherited will not be easy, but we do not waste time to end this devastating crisis, whereby £ 1 billion helps to help the homelessness this year and help the councils faster.

“In addition to our mission, this goes to build 1.5 million new houses as part of our change plan – social and affordable living space and the protection of tenants by imposing abolemis 21 without faults.”

Dan Wilson Craw, deputy managing director of Generation Rent, said: “Behind every statistics there are thousands of people of people who are exposed to some of the most stressful, traumatic and uncertain times of their lives. More and more children spend their formative years, which are captured in overcrowded and uncertain conditions and at great costs in the local authorities, in the local authorities, in the local authorities.

“This is a national scandal that requires state measures. Our rental system is broken. Since rental prices go far beyond that, people are caught in temporary accommodations because they simply cannot find an affordable place for life.

“The government's domestic building program is welcome, but it will take years for a noticeable influence. People now have to need changes.