ID 2007: Household Homelessness Assistance Decisions in England, 2007

2007 data on the percentage of households for whom a decision on their application for homelessness assistance was made under housing legislation. The dataset is sourced from Communities and Local Government administrative data and covers Local Authority Districts in England. It is published by Neighbourhood Statistics and forms part of the Wider Barriers Subdomain.

Use Cases

• Analyze local authority performance in processing homelessness applications based on the decision percentage indicator.
• Map geographic disparities in homelessness assistance provision across England based on Local Authority District coverage.
• Study administrative efficiency within housing legislation provisions based on the described data source.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced to Local Authority Districts across England.
• Temporal coverage is precisely defined as the year 2007.
• Source is an official government body (Communities and Local Government).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single year (2007), which may limit temporal analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG)

Collection Method

Administrative data (some modelling)

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:46.364763; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District level)