Council announces 96% decrease in homeless families living in hotels

Nottingham City Council announced today that for 13 consecutive weeks, no homeless family in the city has had to stay in emergency hotel accommodation for more than six weeks. 

In January 2024, there were over 130 families living in hotels in as temporary accommodation in Nottingham.  By January 2025 this was reduced to just under 50 families, and no Nottingham families spent Christmas 2025 in hotels as temporary accommodation.  In January 2026 the number went up to fewer than five families.  

This reduction is a result of the Council developing mechanisms that enable partnerships with housing providers to deliver better value and more suitable options for families while also maximising grant opportunities from government, including an extra £127,434 in Homelessness Prevention Grant to provide additional support for children experiencing homelessness. 

The Council has also directed investment from its General Fund to restructure and increase capacity in its statutory homelessness prevention and assessment service, and to conduct in-depth analysis and forecasting to ensure sufficient levels of temporary accommodation going forward.  

Councillor Jay Hayes, Executive Member for Housing and Planning, said, “Homelessness is at record levels nationally; the government recently published its National Plan to End Homelessness which recognises the impact of poverty and deprivation as drivers of homelessness, as well as how the issue can be worsened by a shortage of affordable homes.   

“These issues are particularly acute here in Nottingham, which is why the use of hotels as emergency accommodation increased rapidly to a peak of over 150 households in mid-2024.   

“I’m delighted to see that the plans we implemented to address these issues and reduce the number of households requiring temporary accommodation by increasing our homelessness prevention services, moving people out of temporary accommodation more quickly and increasing the supply of suitable types of temporary accommodation is proving successful.”