London local authorities' actions under homelessness provisions from the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts, covering the financial years 2004/05 to 2017/18. The dataset is compiled from the DCLG P1E Homelessness returns and is maintained by the Greater London Authority as a measure of Economic Fairness.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in homelessness provision across London boroughs based on the annual time series.
- Compare local authority performance under the Housing Acts based on the reported homelessness duties.
- Assess the scale of households owed a main homelessness duty but able to remain in existing accommodation.
Strengths
- Covers a 14-year time series from 2004/05 to 2017/18.
- Focuses on London boroughs, providing a consistent geographic scope.
- Sourced from official DCLG P1E Homelessness returns.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.
Provenance
- Source
- Greater London Authority, using DCLG P1E Homelessness returns.
- Collection Method
- Quarterly returns submitted by local authorities.
- Time Range
- 2004/05 to 2017/18
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-24 21:03:50.350826; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- London boroughs, United Kingdom