Housing Need and Homelessness

Published by ONS in 1999

Data Type:Administrative

Various sources including: 2001 Census; LA returns; Land register; RMS; Housing benefit; Council tax bands; Ministry of Justice; Survey of English Housing. Variables include: Stock of dwellings; housebuilding; mortgage advances and income of borrowers possessions; Households accepted as homeless; householders satisfaction with local area.

Time

1999 - 2010 (None)

There are a number of different sources in this dataset, the majority of which came to an end just before or after 2010.

Dataset Quality

None

Administrative but does depend on the quality and frequency of returns from local authorities.

Dataset Access and Use

Freely accessible to download (regional level) from the ONS website as Excel spreadsheet

Geography

Coverage: UK

Units: Regional

It is unclear whether it is possible to obtain a licence from ONS to access data at a lower geographical level

Coverage map

Resources

URL
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Housing+Need+and+Homelessness