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Expenditure on temporary accommodation increased tenfold between 2011-24, as LGA launches outline for plan to tackle homelessness

New analysis from the Local Government Association has found that council expenditure on temporary accommodation increased by a massive 1077 per cent in real terms between 2011/12 and 2024/25.

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