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London council rents out entire four-star hotel for a year to house homeless as crisis deepens in capital

London Councils warned that there is an ‘urgent need for a new approach’ to tackling homelessness

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New holiday lets rules may 'worsen housing crisis', says London Councils

London boroughs are said to be ‘extremely concerned about losing permanent housing stock’

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Freedom Pass 'in danger' if Government restricts council income from motoring fines, warn London boroughs

Money from parking tickets and fines is used to subsidise £292m cost of providing free travel for older and disabled Londoners

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London faces more school closures and mergers as birth rate falls

Demands for places falls amid fears over birth rate

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London secondary school applications down by 4,000 after fall in birthrate

Eight in 10 nationally get first choice of school while capital’s falling numbers are likely to squeeze budgets

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Rough sleeping in London up by a third as capital faces 'homelessness emergency'

Councils warn policy of moving asylum seekers out of hostels is causing spike in rough sleeping numbers

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Councils on the brink: London authorities on edge of going broke warn services are at risk

We’re on financial cliff edge, say council leaders as cash crisis deepens

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London councils spending £90m each month on homeless accommodation

More than 175,000 Londoners are thought to be homeless and living in temporary accommodation

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London schools with falling pupil numbers converting to academies to avoid closure

Islington council has also been blocked from shutting a half empty “inadequate” school after it became an academy

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London schools may be mothballed as student numbers fall

Capital’s councils say they are struggling to keep schools open as pupil funding dries up

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London schools at risk of closure as families flee the capital, report warns

Drop in birth rate, Brexit, the pandemic and cost-of-living all to blame for the drop in demand for school places

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‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises

In central London, schools are closing as low and middle-income families are priced out. But some suburbs have more young people than they can afford. And the pattern is being repeated across the UK

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Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall

London boroughs among hardest hit due to falling birth rate and family struggles with Covid and rising costs

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Number of homeless refugees in London jumps 39 per cent in one month

'The situation is desperate', campaigners say, after hundreds leave Home Office hotels

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London boroughs expect to overspend budgets by £600m as homelessness rises

The increase in boroughs' spending is due to fast-rising spending, with London's homelessness crisis playing a key role

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60,000 London renters could become homeless by 2030 if housing benefit stays frozen, analysis finds

The figure comes amid warnings that homelessness in London is already 'increasing unmanageable'

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We must get London homes to net zero, but it'll take both a carrot and a stick

City Voices: Housing represents more than a third of London’s carbon emissions

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London councils warn of financial ‘knife edge’ as overspends grow

Boroughs across the capital call for Government action to address acute demand pressures and spiralling costs.

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London motorists face fines up to £180 in crackdown on illegal parking

London Councils launches consultation into proposed widespread reform of the current system of fines

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Minister urged to un-freeze housing benefit amid rising homelessness

A City Hall politician has urged minister Mel Stride to increase local housing allowance

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Homeless families evicted as landlords quit London emergency housing sector

London councils report 120% year-on-year rise in requests for return of properties used as temporary homes

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London’s housing crisis ‘unmanageable’ as one in 50 now homeless

One in 50 Londoners are now homeless and the capital’s housing crisis is becoming “unmanageable”, it was warned on Thursday.

The Independent UK

One in 50 Londoners in temporary accommodation, data suggests

London Councils estimated there were 169,393 Londoners living in temporary accommodation at the time of its survey, including 83,473 children.

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London councils hit with backlash over plans to hike motoring fines from £130 to possibly £160

Councils have launched a consultation over increasing the parking, bus lane and yellow box penalties

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Rishi Sunak ‘steps in’ to sort out London housing crisis taking a dig at Sadiq Khan for sky-high home prices

Exclusive: The PM announces a review of the London Plan to speed up house building

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