This report looks at trends in spending on homelessness prevention programs in the United Kingdom, assesses the barriers to these and makes recommendations for how these can be overcome. The dedicated efforts of the homelessness sector are commendable, but evidence suggests they alone cannot provide the long-term, systemic solutions required.

In response to the current housing crisis, governments across the country are implementing strategies to facilitate access to crisis accommodation for people. Increasingly, this crisis accommodation is provided in the form of motels. This paper seeks to summarise current evidence relating specifically to at-risk families residing in motels, finding that it is a suboptimal model.

The survey captures the perspectives of organisations operating across multiple service sectors, including homelessness, domestic and family violence support, financial counselling, and emergency relief. Their insights paint a concerning picture of a system under strain, where rising costs and a lack of affordable housing are creating insurmountable barriers for vulnerable people.

This report on government services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of service provision and the achievement of outcomes for the social housing and specialist homelessness services. It provides performance reporting for housing and homelessness services and includes a summary of government expenditure in the sector.

This paper analyses the current constitutional and operational framework for a new classification of public expenditure. The aim is to identify expenditure and encourage the ‘shift to prevention’. It considers three expenditure areas in the United Kingdom: health, homelessness and children’s social care. By differentiating between everyday spending and preventative spending, the government could measure...