OFFICIAL HOMELESSNESS STATISTICS
Wales - Trends over Time

• In 2007, 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 2007.

• Two-thirds of those officially recognised as homeless are households without dependent children, nearly all single people rather than couples. Most of the other third are lone parents, with only one in ten being couples with children.

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