A report by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint estimates that by 2021 there will be a shortfall across England of nearly one million sub-market-rent properties – around one in six of these will be needed to meet demand from under-25s alone.
This shortage of “affordable” homes will create bottlenecks throughout the system, whereby young people cannot move out of hostels and into independent accommodation because those already in these properties have nowhere else to move onto, the charity says.
If enough additional properties are not available, more than 15,000 further units of supported accommodation – such as hostels – will be required to house young people initially after they become homeless.
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