Please may I request the following information for your local authority area:

1. Any data collected on who turns down support offered by local authority outreach teams. This could include demographic/circumstantial information (i.e. why they refuse/where they are staying) on who disengages and the number of people
See attached file.

2. Any data collected on people who stay in squats, including the number of people who are arrested or cautioned for squatting in the local authority
No information held.

3. Any data collected on people residing in unconventional accommodation types such as temporary structures
See attached file.

4. A breakdown of where people are counted in local rough sleeping snapshots (e.g., cars, sheds, doorways)
See attached file.

5. Data collected on the number of people staying in overcrowded and concealed households and any accompanying demographic information such as sex, age, ethnicity.
Number of households on our housing register who are recognised as being overcrowded by 1 bedroom: 324
Number of households on our housing register who are recognised as being overcrowded by 2 or more bedrooms: 39
Number of households on our housing register who are sharing but not overcrowded: 29

2021/22: 13 households presented as homeless due to overcrowding, of which lead applicant is;
Female: 6
Ages: 41, 18, 21, 35, 22, 29
Ethnicity: Don’t know/ refused, White British, White British, any other Ethnic group, White British, White British

Male: 7
Ages: 66, 35, 35, 25, 60, 37, 39
Ethnicity: White British, White British, White British, White British, White British, White British, other Ethnic Group – Arab

2022/23 to date: 8 households presented as homeless due to overcrowding, of which lead applicant is;
Female: 4
Ages: 25, 30, 22, 37
Ethnicity: White British, Asian or Asian British – Pakistani, White British, Black of Black British - African

Male: 4
Ages: 42, 36, 25, 66
Ethnicity: White British, Asian or Asian British – Pakistani, White British, Asian or Asian British – Pakistani

6. Data collected on the number of people who “sofa surf” or stay temporarily in the homes of others.

2021/22: households presented as homeless due to sofa surfing, of which lead applicant is;
Female: 11
Ages: 19, 20, 29, 45, 20, 34, 26, 24, 18, 21, 27
Ethnicity: White British, White British, don’t know/ refused, White – Other, White British, White – other, Asian or Asian British – Pakistani, White British, White British, White British, White British

Male: 10
Ages: 48, 34, 19, 30, 57, 22, 23, 36, 28, 41
Ethnicity: White British, White British, White – Other, White – Other, White British, White British, White Other, Black or Black British – Caribbean, White British, White British

2022/23 to date – households presented as homeless due to sofa surfing, of which lead applicant is;
Female: 6
Ages: 20, 22, 22, 19, 49, 42
Ethnicity: White British, White British, White British, Mixed – white and black Caribbean, White British, don’t know/ refused

Male: 11
Ages: 71, 46, 34, 34, 68, 32, 22, 38, 26, 29, 23
Ethnicity: White British, White British, not know/ refused, don’t know/ refused, White British, White Other, White British, White British, Mixed – other, White British, White British