Housing options (PREVENT1): statistics - 2019 to 2020

Approaches for housing support

There were 41,476 approaches (from 38,710 unique households) in 2019/20. This was a decrease of 7% from 44,601 compared to 2018/19, and a decrease of 34% since 2014/15.

94% of households made one approach; with only 1% making three or more. 

As would be expected, Glasgow accounts for the largest share of approaches at 23% of the total. However, it is Perth & Kinross which has the highest rate of approaches per capita – 20.1 per 1,000 population compared to 8.5 nationally. This may be reflective of the fact that different local authorities use a different approach to providing their statutory duties.

Conversely, the number of open approaches has been increasing over time. At 31^st March 2020 there were 20,095 open approaches compared to 19,510 at 31^st March 2019 – an increase of 3%.