Housing a homeless family in a bed and breakfast hotel costs £924 a week on average in Manchester, a council report has revealed. More than 100 families are being booked into B&Bs every month across the city as the town hall struggles to find suitable accommodation for those becoming homeless.
B&Bs and hotels can only be used as temporary accommodation for families in 'exceptional circumstances' and for no more than six weeks. But every month, more and more families are staying in B&Bs for longer than 42 days.
It comes four years after a Manchester Evening News investigation revealed the squalid living conditions faced by the city's 'hidden homeless' population. But last month, the newspaper found that families were still being housed under the same roof as alcoholics, sex offenders and infestations of rats.
