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Housing and homelessness

Housing is the pressure the borough council reports most often: the cost of emergency and temporary accommodation, the people waiting for a home, and where new homes will go. This page puts the council's own figures and papers together.

What the council pays out

£14m went out in the twelve months to August 2026, booked to the council's homelessness, rough-sleeping and temporary-accommodation service areas. That is 31% of everything the council paid out in those months.

0£5.0m£10m£15m2016/17: £4.6k2016/172017/18: £381k2017/182018/19: £1.9m2018/192019/20: £3.3m2019/202020/21: £5.5m2020/212021/22: £7.1m2021/222022/23: £11m2022/232023/24: £13m2023/242024/25: £13m2024/252025/26: £14m2025/26£14m2026/27: £5.6m so far2026/27
Every financial year as a figure
2016/17£4.6k
2017/18£381k
2018/19£1.9m
2019/20£3.3m
2020/21£5.5m
2021/22£7.1m
2022/23£11m
2023/24£13m
2024/25£13m
2025/26£14m
2026/27£5.6m

Where it went

The council's own service areas, the same twelve months.

Who was paid

The twelve payees paid most from these service areas in the same months, often providers of emergency and temporary accommodation. A payee the council's file names as a person is shown as “a named individual”.

Which payments count

Payments over £250 that the borough council booked to a service area whose name contains any of: homeless, homelessness, rough sleeper, rough sleeping, temporary accommodation, TA acquisitions, social lettings, local authority housing fund, LAHF. The service areas matched: HAS_01 LUP - TA Acquisitions; Homeless Prevention; Homeless Reduction Grant; Homelessness; Homelessness Prevention; Homelessness Strategy; Local Authority Housing Fund (LAHF 3) (Cap); OS05 Temporary Homelessness Accommodation; OS30 Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme (was Next Steps Accommodation Pathway); Rough Sleeper Prevention; Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme (Cap) (SHAP); Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme (Rev) (SHAP); Social Lettings; Youth Homelessness. The council publishes the payments; it doesn't publish its full budget here, and a payment says money left, not what it achieved.

Houses in multiple occupation

7 planning applications on the record mention a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in their own description. The newest:

Where new homes go

The draft Local Plan sets the housing target and the sites for new homes: the Local Plan page lists them by ward.

The council's papers

Payments data published by Hastings Borough Council under the Local Government Transparency Code; the full detail is on council spending and in the payments dataset.