Housing evidence and statistics
Building more council housing and supporting private renters is a top priority for the Council in order to make Islington a fairer place to live and work. Housing can play a major role in reducing poverty and increasing prosperity, widening people's horizons to ultimately improve their lives and opportunities.
Homes and Neighbourhoods covers a wide range of services and areas of strategic responsibility. These include:
- directly manage council homes
- provide housing advice services to prevent homelessness as well as assisting people who have lost their homes
- support rough sleepers
- provide advice for tenants living in the private rented sector and work with landlords to improve standards
- work with registered providers (housing associations) to enable the building of new affordable housing and good housing management
- encourage greater resident participation in improvement to housing services
- work with partner organisations and commissioned services to deliver interventions and improve housing conditions
Related information
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Statistics about homelessness in the borough
Table 784 has a summary of statistics by borough on an annual basis, from 2014/15 to the most recent year. There is also more detailed information about homelessness, for example preventions and acceptances, and also about rough sleeping
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Rough sleeping in London (CHAIN reports)
These reports present information about people seen rough sleeping by outreach teams in London.