Ending Homelessness Together: annual report 2021
Annual report setting out the progress made in the last 12 months by national government, local government and third sector partners against actions in the Ending Homelessness Together action plan.
Annex 1: homelessness statistics
The Scottish Government's latest homelessness statistics remind us why our commitment to end homelessness is so important.
The emergency measures we put in place to protect tenants from eviction has contributed to a 42 per cent reduction in homelessness applications from people in the private rented sector compared to 2019/20.
Throughout the pandemic, our priority has been to keep people safe from coronavirus. Although this has contributed to an increase in the numbers in temporary accommodation, we are starting to see reductions in number of open homeless cases and in the number of households in temporary accommodation since peaks in August 2020.
And while we do not collect and publish data on the number of people sleeping rough, the statistics show that a smaller proportion of those making homelessness applications reported sleeping rough in the three months prior to their application when compared with last year.
![Infograpgic - Main findings from the Scottish Government’s Homelessness in Scotland: 2020 to 2021 statistics publication](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g03.png)
Main findings from the Scottish Government’s Homelessness in Scotland: 2020 to 2021 statistics publication
![Number of applications and those assessed as homeless between 2002-03 and 2020-21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g04.png)
![Households where at least one household member experienced rough sleeping the night before their application and in the three months prior to their application](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g05.png)
![Applicants reported to be rough sleeping the night before application between 2002-03 and 2020-21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g06.png)
![Main reason for making a homelessness application in 2020-21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g07.png)
![Reasons for failing to maintain accommodation in 2019-20 and 2020-21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g08.png)
2019-20 | 2020-21 | |
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All assessed as homeless | 31,581 | 27,571 |
Own property - LA tenancy | 2,877 | 2,600 |
Own property - RSL tenancy | 1,541 | 1,490 |
Own property - private rented tenancy | 5,145 | 2,984 |
Own property - tenancy secured through employment / tied house | 218 | 229 |
Own property - owning / buying | 1,096 | 929 |
Own property - Shared ownership / Shared equity / LCHO | 26 | 22 |
Parental / family home / relatives | 7,626 | 8,159 |
Friends / partners | 5,601 | 5,929 |
Lodger | 406 | 287 |
Armed services accommodation | 47 | 30 |
Prison | 1,756 | 1,574 |
Hospital | 229 | 146 |
Childrens residential accommodation (looked after by the local authority) | 41 | 40 |
Shared Property – Private Rented Sector | 143 | 85 |
Shared Property – Local authority | 40 | 32 |
Shared Property - RSL | 47 | 51 |
Supported accommodation | 1,456 | 746 |
Hostel (unsupported) | 98 | 69 |
Bed & Breakfast | 41 | 84 |
Caravan / mobile home | 132 | 123 |
Long-term roofless | 157 | 120 |
Long-term "sofa-surfing" | 743 | 662 |
Other | 861 | 682 |
Not known / refused | 1,254 | 498 |
All assessed as homeless | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
---|---|---|
100% | 100% | |
Own property - LA tenancy | 9% | 9% |
Own property - RSL tenancy | 5% | 5% |
Own property - private rented tenancy | 16% | 11% |
Own property - tenancy secured through employment / tied house | 1% | 1% |
Own property - owning / buying | 3% | 3% |
Own property - Shared ownership / Shared equity / LCHO | 0% | 0% |
Parental / family home / relatives | 24% | 30% |
Friends / partners | 18% | 22% |
Lodger | 1% | 1% |
Armed services accommodation | 0% | 0% |
Prison | 6% | 6% |
Hospital | 1% | 1% |
Childrens residential accommodation (looked after by the local authority) | 0% | 0% |
Shared Property – Private Rented Sector | 0% | 0% |
Shared Property – Local authority | 0% | 0% |
Shared Property - RSL | 0% | 0% |
Supported accommodation | 5% | 3% |
Hostel (unsupported) | 0% | 0% |
Bed & Breakfast | 0% | 0% |
Caravan / mobile home | 0% | 0% |
Long-term roofless | 0% | 0% |
Long-term "sofa-surfing" | 2% | 2% |
Other | 3% | 2% |
Not known / refused | 4% | 2% |
2019-20 | 2020-21 | |
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Mental health problem | 8,404 | 7,397 |
Learning disability | 932 | 736 |
Physical disability | 1,839 | 1,246 |
Medical condition | 3,091 | 2,405 |
Drug or alcohol dependency | 3,560 | 3,248 |
Basic housing management / independent living skills | 7,395 | 7,113 |
At least one support need | 16,204 | 14,106 |
![Number of households in temporary accommodation on 31 March in each Scottish local authority between 2002 and 2021](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g09.png)
All households | ||||
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Social sector accommodation | Hostel | Bed & Breakfast | Other | Total |
8,840 | 710 | 1,130 | 2,415 | 13,095 |
Households with pregnant women/children | ||||
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Social sector accommodation | Hostel | Bed & Breakfast | Other | Total |
2,795 | 0 | 20 | 830 | 3,645 |
None | One | Two | Three | Four | Five+ | All | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All | 8,720 | 9,470 | 4,595 | 1,520 | 645 | 955 | 25,905 |
![Average number of days spent in temporary accommodation by household type in 2020-21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g10.png)
2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | ||||||||||
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Apr-Jun | July-Sept | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr-Jun | July-Sept | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr-Jun | July-Sept | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | |
Scotland | 200 | 175 | 155 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 170 | 125 | 40 | 185 | 160 | 105 |
![Proportion of unintentionally homeless households securing settled accommodation: 2002/03 to 2020/21](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g11.png)
![Homeless households that have previously been assessed as homeless in the previous one, three and five years](/binaries/content/gallery/publications/progress-report/2021/10/ending-homelessness-together-annual-report-2021/SCT07219372201_g12.png)
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