The Bureau of Investigative Journalism report:

To gauge the cost of the UK’s housing crisis on the public purse, the Bureau approached councils that cover the UK’s 12 biggest cities including all 33 London boroughs and requested information on how much they had spent on temporary accommodation in the past four years.

We also asked how much they have spent securing accommodation in bed and breakfast properties.

Some disclosed these costs, while for others we had to submit Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to obtain the data.

You can read the full story and get the data here.

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.