Stastical Bulletin Housing Series: HSG/1999/3: Page 25

Stastical Bulletin Housing Series: Operation of the Homeless Persons Legislation in Scotland 1987-88 to 1997-88: National and Local Authority Analyses: HSG/1999/3

Applicant households assessed as in priority need and homeless or potentially homeless: by reason for loss/threatened loss of accommodation and household type, Scotland 1997-98	Table 19
Number

Reason for loss of accommodation	Household type									Total
	One person households				One parent households		Couple		Other household type
	Under 18	18-24	25 to 60/65	60/65 and over	Parent aged under 25	Parent aged25 or over	Without children	With children	Other household type
Total applicants	2,000	1,300	2,700	700	2,100	5,900	600	1,900	300	17,500
Friends or relatives no longer willing or able to accommodate	1,600	600	600	200	800	1,000	300	500	100	5,600
Dispute with spouse or cohabitee
violent	100	200	600	100	600	2,000	-	100	-	3,600
non-violent	-	100	500	100	300	1,300	-	-	100	2,400
Court order		-	-	-	-		-
rent arrears	-	-	-	-	-	100	-	100	-	200
mortgage default	-	-	-	-	-	200	-	200	-	500
other	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100
Loss of service tenancy	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100	-	200
Fire, flood, storm etc	-	-	100	-	-	-	-	-	-	200
Discharged from institution	100	100	200	-	-	-	-	-	-	500
Other reasons
action by landlord	-	100	200	100	100	500	100	400	-	1,500
lost accommodation in hostel etc	100	100	200	100	-	-	-	-	-	500
gave up secure accommodation	-	-	100	-	100	200	-	100	-	600
overcrowding	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100
other	100	100	200	100	100	400	100	300	100	1,500

Percentage

Reason for loss of accommodation	Household type									Total
	One person households				One parent households		Couple		Other household type
	Under18	18-24	25 to60/65	60/65 and over	Parent aged under 25	Parent aged25 or over	Without children	With children	Other household type
Total applicants	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*
Friends or relatives no longer willing or able to accommodate	80	50	22	24	38	17	42	26	24	32
Dispute with spouse or cohabitee
violent	3	13	21	9	28	34	4	4	12	21
non-violent	1	6	17	18	12	23	3	2	18	14
Court order
rent arrears	-	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	1	1
mortgage default	-	-	1	2	1	3	4	11	4	3
other	-	-	1	2	-	-	1	1	1	1
Loss of service tenancy	-	-	1	1	-	-	6	4	2	1
Fire, flood, storm etc	-	1	2	3	1	1	2	2	2	1
Discharged from institution	3	7	9	6	-	1	1	-	-	3
Other reasons
action by landlord	2	5	6	8	7	8	16	19	9	8
lost accommodation in hostel etc	4	7	6	9	-	-	1	1	1	3
gave up secure accommodation	2	3	3	6	3	3	6	7	4	3
overcrowding	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	-	-
other	4	8	9	11	6	7	11	17	21	9

See Notes on Tables - page 13