Recommendation 10

MHCLG explained that a £230 million increase in allocations for homelessness in the autumn 2024 budget, including uplifts in the Homelessness Prevention Grant, and an improved wider local government finance settlement, should help local authorities to do more preventive work. It also summarised a number of other actions that might give local authorities the breathing space to do this, including: reducing the number of households presenting as homeless in the first place, which would depend on a systemic set of changes including addressing the scarcity of housing; reducing the cost of temporary accommodation that local authorities procure; and providing multi-year funding settlements, which would enable local authorities to plan better and potentially acquire temporary accommodation more cheaply.15 10 Q 76 11 Qq 22, 27 12 TH0002 13 Q 26 14 Q 78 15 Qq 24, 38, 78-80 11 The use of B&Bs as temporary accommodation