Challenges such as rocketing temporary housing costs threaten local government finances, and chancellor Rachel Reeves faces calls to fix the system in the upcoming Budget.
Local authorities are being put under unsustainable financial pressure by their duty to tackle homelessness, with some warning that the demand for temporary accommodation risks pushing them into...
Urgent spending cuts are needed to avoid a section 114 notice at Hastings Borough Council this year because of ballooning temporary housing costs and near-exhausted reserves, the Local Government...