OFFICIAL HOMELESSNESS STATISTICS

Wales - Trends over Time

• In 2008, around 9,000 households in Wales were officially recognised by their local authority as newly homeless.

• Numbers grew from 8,000 in 1999 to almost 17,000 in 2004 before falling back to 9,000 in 2008.

• In 2008, three-fifths of those officially recognised as homeless were households without dependent children, nearly all single people rather than couples. Most of the others were lone parents, with very few being couples with children.

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