New Rough Sleeping Figures Released

In June the annual figures for people sleeping rough were released. Overall numbers were up, and it remains a pretty bleak picture.

In total during the period April-June 2024 outreach teams recorded 4223 individuals sleeping rough in the capital. This is a 29% increase on the total figure for April-June 2023.

Of that total:

 new rough sleepers account for almost half (46%) of all rough sleepers

 intermittent rough sleepers, those who had been seen occasionally, account for 41% of all those recorded in the period, and

 15% of those recorded during the period had been seen a number of times over a three week period and so were assumed to be living on the streets

You can read the full CHAIN report @Greater London report.