‘Homeless black families less than half as likely to get into social housing’

Research suggests black families accepted as statutorily homeless are less than half as likely to gain social housing as their white counterparts (Alamy/PA) -

Black families facing homelessness were less than half as likely to get access to social housing in England as white families in similar circumstances, according to research said to show “fresh evidence of racism in our housing and support systems”.

While almost a quarter (24%) of white families in the statutory homelessness system ended up in social housing, this was true of only around one in 10 (10%) black families, the three-year research project concluded.