The general consensus is Greater London’s population is just over 9.54 million

• The total number of families living in Temporary Accommodation (TA) has increased 65% since 2011
•  London councils estimate 165,000 homeless Londoners live in TA
• Almost 70% of London’s homeless households in TA have at least one child (42,290 households) amounting to 86,450 children
• London faces the most severe homelessness pressures in the country, accounting for 2/3 of England’s total TA numbers (96,600 households)
• Londoners are ten times more likely to be living in TA than residents of anywhere else in England
• London has more than double the number of children in TA {86,450} than the rest of England’s Local Authorities combined {37,480}
• During Covid-19 there was a moratorium on evictions. Since this ended, we estimate at least 1,000 new families a month join the statutorily homeless
• An estimated 125,000 lower-income Londoners are now at risk of homelessness because their benefit entitlement falls short of meeting their rent