Scottish local government finance - Green Book: 2023-2024

Scottish Local Government Finance Settlement 2023-24: Funding Allocation Formula.


Homelessness

Quantum (£000s): 55,322

Category: GAE

Note 1: includes £10.144m Tackling and Preventing Homelessness GAE and £38.743m Tackling and Preventing Homelessness redetermination

Note 2: Number of applications to local authorities under the homeless persons legislation that were assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2021-22 average. Source: Scottish Government Housing Statistics Branch (HL1 return)

Homelessness
indicators Homeless or Threatened with Homelessness Applications Share GAE (£000s)
Aberdeen City 1,223 4% 2,244
Aberdeenshire 927 3% 1,702
Angus 484 2% 888
Argyll & Bute 341 1% 626
City of Edinburgh 2,992 10% 5,489
Clackmannanshire 445 1% 816
Dumfries & Galloway 747 2% 1,371
Dundee City 1,017 3% 1,865
East Ayrshire 664 2% 1,218
East Dunbartonshire 304 1% 558
East Lothian 606 2% 1,111
East Renfrewshire 294 1% 540
Falkirk 907 3% 1,664
Fife 2,082 7% 3,820
Glasgow City 5,215 17% 9,569
Highland 1,131 4% 2,076
Inverclyde 196 1% 359
Midlothian 434 1% 796
Moray 382 1% 701
Na h-Eileanan Siar 121 0% 223
North Ayrshire 888 3% 1,629
North Lanarkshire 1,716 6% 3,149
Orkney Islands 102 0% 187
Perth & Kinross 655 2% 1,202
Renfrewshire 716 2% 1,313
Scottish Borders 611 2% 1,121
Shetland Islands 88 0% 161
South Ayrshire 671 2% 1,231
South Lanarkshire 1,662 6% 3,050
Stirling 501 2% 919
West Dunbartonshire 946 3% 1,736
West Lothian 1,083 4% 1,988
Total 30,150 100% 55,322

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