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 "id": "homelessness-assistance-wales",
 "title": "Households owed help with homelessness and their outcomes, Wales",
 "category": "housing",
 "summary": "Households in Wales owed each of the councils' three homelessness duties – to help prevent it, to help relieve it and the final duty to secure a home – and those for whom each succeeded, each financial year since 2015–16.",
 "unit": "count",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "The latest year is provisional",
 "notes": [
  "Under the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 a council owes households threatened with homelessness within 56 days its duty to help prevent it (section 66), those already homeless its duty to help secure accommodation (section 73) and those still homeless after that, in priority need and not intentionally so, its final duty (section 75). Each outcome counts the households for whom that duty succeeded.",
  "StatsWales rounds every count to the nearest 3 and suppresses figures under 3, so the regions and councils need not add up to Wales exactly. England's homelessness figures are counted under a different law and are on their own pages."
 ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
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  "latest_period": "2026-03-31",
  "statswales_title": "Households for which assistance has been provided by outcome, household type, rate and percentage",
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  "published": "2026-07-30T08:30:00.000Z"
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 "headline": {
  "label": "Owed the prevention duty",
  "value": 7662.0,
  "period": "2025/26",
  "note": "provisional"
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   "name": "Owed the prevention duty",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 7128.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 9231.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 9072.0
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     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 10737.0
    },
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     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 9993.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 7290.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 9228.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 9246.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 8772.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 7752.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 7662.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Homelessness prevented",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 4599.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 5727.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 6021.0
    },
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     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 7290.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 6699.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 4761.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 6162.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 5457.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 5079.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 4602.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 4671.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Owed the relief duty",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 6891.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 10908.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 11277.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 11715.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 12399.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 13161.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 11703.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 12537.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 13539.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 13020.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 12183.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Homelessness relieved",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 3108.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 4506.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 4653.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 4779.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 5088.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 5088.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 3993.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 3801.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 3555.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 3318.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 3351.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Owed the final duty",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 1611.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 2073.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 2229.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 2631.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 3060.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 3795.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 4086.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 5094.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 6135.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 7143.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 7017.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Final duty positively discharged",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2015/16",
     "v": 1284.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016/17",
     "v": 1671.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017/18",
     "v": 1746.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018/19",
     "v": 2091.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 2388.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 2859.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 2835.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 3636.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 4305.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 5145.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 5013.0
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}