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Statutory homelessness and temporary accommodation report

I turned statutory homelessness data into a readable council-style performance report covering assessments, prevention, relief duty and temporary accommodation pressure.

I cleaned GOV.UK homelessness release metrics, separated duty-stage counts from temporary-accommodation counts and built trend and KPI views for policy-stage reporting.

Public sectorPolicy analytics

Dataset type: Public data. This label is shown clearly so the project is honest about whether the evidence is public, mock, synthetic or portfolio data.I separate source type from method because the reliability and limitations depend on where the data came from.

Statutory homelessness and temporary accommodation report main dashboard preview

Why this matters

Build summary

Housing teams need clear views of demand and temporary accommodation pressure without mixing separate statutory stages.

I cleaned GOV.UK homelessness release metrics, separated duty-stage counts from temporary-accommodation counts and built trend and KPI views for policy-stage reporting.

Key numbers

Oct-Dec 2025
latest quarter
134,210
TA households
Public
GOV.UK data

What I wanted the report to help with

How I approached it

  • Make the main performance question easier to scan.
  • Separate headline totals from the detail that explains them.
  • Show enough context for a non-technical user to trust the next action.
  • Cleaned public release metrics.
  • Separated prevention, relief, main duty and temporary accommodation measures.
  • Built a dashboard-style summary around latest quarter and trend movement.

Technical inspection notes

  • Separated assessment, prevention, relief and temporary accommodation metrics because they describe different points in the statutory journey.
  • Used public release data and labelled the source clearly so the report is honest about scope.
  • Built trend views to show pressure over time rather than treating the release as a static table.
  • Kept policy-stage definitions visible so a non-technical reader can follow the story.

Dashboard snapshots

These snapshots show how the analysis was turned into decision-ready visuals.

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Statutory homelessness and temporary accommodation report snapshot
Housing overview: Shows homelessness demand and temporary-accommodation pressure.
Statutory homelessness and temporary accommodation report snapshot
Prevention and relief: Shows movement through key duty stages.
Statutory homelessness and temporary accommodation report snapshot
Temporary accommodation: Shows pressure at the end of the quarter.

What the analysis showed

  • Latest quarter analysed: Oct-Dec 2025.
  • 134,210 households were in temporary accommodation at 31 December 2025.
  • Temporary accommodation and duty stages need separate interpretation.

What I would improve next

  • Add council-level benchmarking.
  • Add year-on-year comparisons.
  • Add notes for metric definitions.