A report published today details what it calls “the huge bill” being met by the taxpayer to fund the record numbers of homeless families in emergency housing. The homeless charity Shelter has based “Living in Limbo, on a survey of more than 400 homeless households living in temporary accommodation in England. It estimates that temporary housing is costing over half a billion pounds a year.The report shows the impact of homelessness on their health, education and job opportunites. Two thirds of those surveyed said their children had problems at school with the average child missing 55 school days a year. A majority of those questioned said their own or their family’s health had suffered and nearly half described their children as ‘often unhappy or depressed’. The findings also show that more than half of people in the survey had been waiting in temporary accommodation for an offer of permanent housing for more than a year.
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