Housing policy and strategy

Number of homeless approaches received

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
April	271	314	277	353	521
May	273	305	366	446	480
Jun	300	327	310	423	403
July	309	361	288	391	426
August	286	385	379	416	481
September	344	361	348	493	468
October	352	297	370	505	540
November	296	256	347	556
December	219	205	271	376
January	350	266	374	488
February	277	270	365	546
March	318	343	435	486

Number of homeless applications received from singles

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
April	84	99	84	110	239
May	71	96	123	136	259
June	70	74	91	144	98
July	96	105	87	96	285
August	69	107	121	108	213
September	140	85	90	126	213
October	103	89	102	205	214
November	96	90	106	175
December	63	82	66	129
January	86	84	98	184
February	106	117	92	177
March	147	108	153	171

 

Number of homeless applications received from families

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
April	65	69	55	80	101
May	57	61	64	121	121
June	79	75	80	103	200
July	75	98	81	96	81
August	77	84	85	103	97
September	62	64	114	93	113
October	59	57	105	110	138
November	57	34	90	126
December	40	53	67	89
January	75	50	81	101
February	56	71	82	107
March	84	61	99	111

 

Number of main duty acceptances

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
April	88	32	24	38	115
May	45	30	25	61	92
June	36	43	26	90	86
July	33	22	50	52	83
August	38	24	40	35	110
September	38	34	62	62	86
October	32	55	15	114	90
November	35	31	43	123
December	25	28	40	79
January	25	29	37	121
February	25	29	34	115
March	34	8	72	103

Number of homeless preventions in the prevention and relief stage

Month	20/21	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
April	62	50	52	57	73
May	49	52	56	50	68
June	44	46	50	52	67
July	45	51	43	68	80
August	49	55	46	50	90
September	58	63	47	63	85
October	61	44	60	52	69
November	58	47	68	56
December	37	38	27	31
January	56	48	58	48
February	54	67	57	61
March	53	34	87	102

Number of temporary accommodation units in and out of borough

	In borough	In borough	In borough	Out of borough	Out of borough	Out of borough
	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25
April	1152	1231	1408	1560	1719	2090
May	1149	1233	1462	1567	1719	2133
June	1156	1274	1488	1536	1763	2150
July	1165	1275	1516	1542	1781	2191
August	1171	1273	1510	1539	1824	2202
September	1190	1259	1512	1551	1842	2227
October	1193	1279	1535	1561	1856	2260
November	1207	1294		1596	1914
December	1208	1331		1594	1984
January	1210	1355		1630	2009
February	1222	1403		1643	2041
March	1226	1411		1665	2069

Number of singles and families in temporary accommodation

	Singles	Singles	Singles	Families	Families	Families
	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25
April	661	736	998	1990	2214	2500
May	638	729	1039	2081	2223	2556
June	641	803	1061	2051	2234	2577
July	652	804	1092	2055	2252	2615
August	655	822	1095	2055	2275	2617
September	676	823	1117	2065	2278	2622
October	671	838	1145	2083	2297	2650
November	688	866		2115	2342
December	682	906		2120	2409
January	684	925		2156	2439
February	702	970		2163	2474
March	710	992		2181	2488

Number of applications on waiting list by category as of the beginning of the financial year

	Homeless	Transfer	Housing Register
April 2021	2188	1655	430
April 2022	2354	1200	452
April 2023	2508	1263	573
April 2024	3158	1237	837

 

Number of Homeless households moving into social housing

Month	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25
April	1	15	19	18	60
May	2	33	16	28	43
June	26	19	27	27	33
July	33	24	25	36	49
August	18	24	22	38	25
September	11	14	20	19	39
October	18	16	28	27	22
November	25	12	16	17
December	28	18	22	20
January	14	18	22	28
February	36	10	12	46
March	42	34	22	49

Number of recorded rough sleepers in Westminster following street count, broken down by cohort

Date	Rough Sleepers	UK & ROI	EEA Nationals	Rest of the world
May 2020	109	74	58	18
July 2020	228	65	110	13
August 2020	266	68	131	20
November 2020	242	88	119	18
January 2021	111	56	23	12
March 2021	106	50	30	7
May 2021	167	52	75	14
July 2021	171	73	60	14
September 2021	187	80	68	11
November 2021	187	68	84	7
January 2022	119	66	25	5
March 2022	178	75	63	11
June 2022	229	98	79	20
July 2022	280	86	118	18
September 2022	227	77	84	16
November 2022	250	76	118	20
January 2023	182	59	59	12
March 2023	243	62	116	18
May 2023	215	75	85	30
July 2023	234	65	118	22
September 2023	284	101	106	24
November 2023	277	81	99	29
January 2024	238	71	54	45
March 2024	285	97	77	48
May 2024	283	85	82	35
July 2024	345	115	119	43
September 2024	369	107	75	53

Additional information about rough sleeping figures in London is available from the London Datastore.