OFFICIAL HOMELESSNESS STATISTICS
Scotland - Trends over time
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40,000 households were officially recognised as newly homeless in Scotland in 2007/08.
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Over the period from 2000/01 to 2003/04, there was a noticeable increase in the number of households officially recognised as newly homeless, from 30,000 in 1996/97 to 43,000 in 2003/04. Since then, numbers have been stable.
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A third of newly homeless households are single person households aged 25 or over without dependent children. A further quarter are single person households aged under 25 without dependent children and another quarter are lone parents. Very few are couples.
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The rise in officially recognised homelessness broadly coincided with the introduction of the 2001 Housing (Scotland) Act and the 2003 Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act which created a recent framework which is much more generous towards homeless people without dependent children than before.
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