Housing Ministry figures say that of homeless people helped into temporary accommodation like this by councils last summer, six out of ten were single adults, while a further 26 per cent were lone-parent families and 8 per cent were couples with children
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Housing Ministry figures say that of homeless people helped by councils last summer, six out of ten were single adults, while a further 26 per cent were lone-parent families and 8 per cent were couples with children.
‘The council put me in here,’ she said. ‘It’s better than Calais but no-one wishes to live in a container, especially when you have kids. When I got here and saw all of this, the shipping container homes ghana, I was crying.’
‘Children have told us of the disruptive and at times frightening impact this can have on their lives. It is a scandal that a country as prosperous as ours is leaving tens of thousands of families in temporary accommodation for long periods of time.’
‘While we would rather offer people the opportunity to live in genuinely affordable permanent homes, the housing crisis means we have no choice but to use temporary accommodation to house the sheer volume of homeless households that present to us.’
‘There’s no bathtub. Originally I was washing him (the nine-month-old) in the kitchen sink but now I wash him on the floor, getting a cup and washing him that way, because he’s too big to fit in the sink now.’
The Local Government Association, the umbrella body for councils, said: ‘The severe lack of social rented homes available… means councils have no choice but to place households into temporary accommodation, including – in emergencies – bed and breakfasts.’
It is thought there are more than 210,000 homeless children in England, of whom 124,000 are on the official homeless registers and living in temporary housing, and a further 90,000 said to be in ‘sofa-surfing’ families living with relatives or friends.