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Your council must help if you’re legally homeless or will become homeless within 8 weeks. Help may include advice, emergency housing or longer-term housing.

Get help and advice from your local council if you're homeless or about to lose your home.

Information and guidance for local authorities compiling the P1E quarterly data returns on homelessness.

• Updated: 3 April 2018

Includes help with homelessness, evictions and squatting

• Updated: 29 August 2023

Research and analysis on barriers and enablers of data linking and how linked datasets can inform our understanding of homelessness.

• Updated: 11 December 2025

If you're under 18, you cannot usually rent your own home, but you'll be on the priority list for council housing - your rights and what happens if you want to leave home

Find out what support is available if you're a veteran who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

• Updated: 12 September 2024

Guidance on how to determine whether a person is homeless or threatened with homelessness according to legislation.

• Updated: 22 February 2018

Data on the number of households accepted as homelessness, reasons for homelessness and the number of households in temporary accommodation.

• Updated: 19 December 2016

How to provide tailored alcohol treatment for people experiencing homelessness. It covers strategies for improving access and engagement, highlighting the need for multi-agency integrated care to address alcohol use, housing and wider needs while reducing health inequalities.

• Updated: 28 November 2025