Almost 10,000 homeless single mothers and their children have been forced to move into “horrendous” temporary housing far away from their families because of a chronic shortage of affordable homes, new figures show.
Analysis of the latest government data, carried out by The Independent, suggests that 9,343 of the 34,070 single mothers living with at least one child in temporary accommodation in England were living outside of their own local authority area between July and September 2022.
