The council's yearly bill for emergency housing — bed and breakfasts, nightly-paid rooms and leased flats for homeless families. It matters because it is the classic cost of things going wrong: expensive last-resort housing that gives poor value compared with preventing homelessness in the first place. A high or fast-rising number means either many families in crisis or a costly way of housing them, and either way it is money squeezing the rest of the budget.
| name | temporary-accommodation-subtotal |
|---|---|
| dataset | 01-revenue-outturn |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 per year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | data/Revenue_Outturn_time_series_data_v3.2.csv, column `RO4_housgfcfhml_tmp_acc_sub_net_cur_exp` |
| period | FY 2019-20 (year_ending 202003) to 2024-25, annual — line starts mid-series |
| missingness | "Not reported before year_ending 202003 — earlier blanks mean the line did not exist yet, not zero spend. Rows with status other than "submitted" (i.e. "total" aggregates and "not submitted") must be filtered out; a non-submitted council-year is a genuine gap, not zero. 2024-25 covers 410/411 councils. Councils abolished/created in 2017-25 reorganisations appear only for the years they existed." |
| score_note | The classic expensive-failure-demand line, but short series and demand-confounded; the per-household unit cost supersedes it. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Net spend on temporary accommodation — B&B, nightly-let and leased TA — the classic "expensive failure demand" line. High or fast-growing TA spend signals costly provision or unmanaged homelessness demand; the constructed TA-cost-per-household variable splits the two. Series starts in 2019-20.