Freedom of information response
Homelessness placements with private landlords
1. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please provide a breakdown of which local authority areas they were placed. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
2. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24 where incentive payments were paid upfront to private landlords to accept them. Please advise the total spending (if any) in this respect.
3. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation inside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
4. How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively.
5. How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area
you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively - were for properties that the Council had placed tenants in.
Q1,
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Borough |
April |
May |
June |
July |
August |
Sept |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
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Basildon |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Havering |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
6 |
<5 |
<5 |
7 |
<5 |
|
Barking & Dagenham |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Peterborough |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Southend |
<5 |
<5 |
6 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Leicestershire |
<5 |
<5 |
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Kent |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Wolverhampton |
<5 |
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Brentwood |
<5 |
<5 |
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Northampton |
<5 |
<5 |
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Bexley |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Lewisham |
<5 |
<5 |
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Luton |
<5 |
<5 |
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Bromley |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Gravesend |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Haringey |
<5 |
<5 |
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Hackney |
<5 |
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Folkstone & Hythe |
<5 |
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Hemel Hempstead |
<5 |
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Lambeth |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
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Swale |
<5 |
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Rochford |
<5 |
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Harlow |
<5 |
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Derby |
<5 |
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Epping Forest |
<5 |
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Croydon |
<5 |
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Castle Point |
<5 |
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Felixstowe |
<5 |
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Huntington |
<5 |
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Greenwich |
<5 |
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TOTAL |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
<5 |
8 |
10 |
13 |
17 |
18 |
25 |
16 |
Q2,
Out of Borough Incentive – 162
Total Incentive Cost £374,304.16
Q3,
In Borough Placements (Thurrock) - 670 (breakdown below)
B&B – 118
Hostels – 90
Nightly Lets – 172
Furnished Lets -290
Q4 - Q5,
23/24
No of complaints 306
No of inspections 123
No of improvement services 5
We are unable to provide an exact number for question 1 above as:
- There is a low number involved.
- The release of this information could identify individuals which would constitute their personal data under the Data Protection Act
- There is no prior expectation on the part of these individuals that their personal information would be published in the wider public domain under the FOI Act
- Personal data of any other person is exempt under section 40 (2) of the Data Protection Act.
However in the interests of transparency we are able to provide this information to you categorised as fewer than 5 to give you an indication of the figures