After a huge spike in homelessness, the figures are finally falling
You might not believe it if you walk around town on a Friday night, but homelessness is actually falling in Manchester. Since the start of the year, the number of people sleeping on the streets has dropped and fewer families are being housed in B&Bs – with hardly any staying beyond the legal limit now.
However, Manchester's homelessness problem is far from fixed. Last year, the town hall helped more people who were homeless or at risk of becoming homeless than any other local authority in the country after a 54 pc increase in the number of homelessness applications opened over a three-year period. For its part, Manchester council is pleased that homelessness is falling as the city bucks the national trend. But local leaders promise not to be complacent.
"It’s particularly pleasing that we have made such progress in cutting the use of B&B accommodation for families, which we know is always unsuitable and which we have made it a priority to reduce. Since then, the council has leased an additional 200 properties for temporary accommodation, costing £7.9m over five years, but helping save £34m on B&Bs. The town hall has also changed its social housing allocations policy which now gives people who are at risk of being homeless the same priority on the waiting list as those already experiencing it so people seek support sooner.
In Manchester, the monthly local housing allowance for a two-bedroom home is £648.22. According to property website Rightmove, just 46 properties across the city that were advertised as available to rent last year were priced below the local housing allowance rate, 38 of which only had one bedroom.
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