{"schemaVersion":"1.0","type":"DataStory","id":"a-home-without-security","title":"A home without security","description":"Rent, possession action, temporary accommodation and rough sleeping mark different points in London’s housing emergency.","introduction":"Housing insecurity is not a single queue. Court actions, council placements, street outreach records and sampled rents describe different people and stages. Reading them together shows the system’s pressure without pretending they form one funnel.","category":"Housing","canonical":"https://londongraph.com/story/a-home-without-security","markdown":"https://londongraph.com/story/a-home-without-security/index.html.md","updatedAt":"2026-08-02T22:02:45.417Z","caveat":"Claims, placements, outreach contacts and sampled rents count different events and populations. They cannot be added or interpreted as a sequence experienced by one household.","evidence":[{"dataset":"temporary-accommodation-by-borough","graphSlug":"temporary-accommodation-by-borough","label":"Temporary accommodation","text":"Households placed in temporary accommodation per 1,000 households by borough.","shape":"area","metric":"value","unit":"per 1,000 households","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/temporary-accommodation-by-borough","claim":null},{"dataset":"rough-sleeping-borough","graphSlug":"where-people-sleep-rough","label":"People seen rough sleeping","text":"Outreach-recorded people by borough in the published reporting period.","shape":"area","metric":"value","unit":"people","caveat":"Outreach contacts are not a complete census of everyone sleeping rough.","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough","claim":null},{"dataset":"landlord-possession-pressure","graphSlug":"landlord-possession-pressure","label":"Private-landlord possession pressure","text":"Private-landlord possession claims relative to the published household denominator.","shape":"area","metric":"Private landlord","unit":"per 100,000 households","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/landlord-possession-pressure","claim":null},{"dataset":"londons-private-rent-map","graphSlug":"londons-private-rent-map","label":"Two-bedroom rent","text":"Median two-bedroom rent in the latest ONS purposive sample.","shape":"area","metric":"two_bedrooms_median","unit":"GBP pcm","graph":"https://londongraph.com/g/londons-private-rent-map","claim":{"dataset":"londons-private-rent-map","graphSlug":"londons-private-rent-map","label":"Two-bedroom rent","text":"Median two-bedroom rent in the latest ONS purposive sample.","headlineLabel":"WC2B","value":4550,"unit":"GBP pcm","period":"Private Rental Market in London: April 2025 to March 2026","comparisonLabel":"London median","comparisonValue":2916.5,"caveat":null,"release":{"updatedAt":"2026-08-02T22:02:45.417Z","resourceUrl":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/3389privaterentalmarketinlondonapril2025tomarch2026/londonrentalstatsaccessibleq12026.xlsx","methodologyUrl":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/3389privaterentalmarketinlondonapril2025tomarch2026","releaseLabel":"Private Rental Market in London: April 2025 to March 2026","sourcePublishedAt":null,"resourceChecksum":"48d2789987145f0d4575d6d3d5544deb3ec56ceb0746dd388a356787e46009ef"}}}],"sources":[{"name":"MHCLG","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness","graphSlug":"temporary-accommodation-by-borough"},{"name":"CHAIN / GLA","url":"https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/rough-sleeping-in-london-chain-reports-2n88x","graphSlug":"where-people-sleep-rough"},{"name":"Ministry of Justice","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics","graphSlug":"landlord-possession-pressure"},{"name":"ONS","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/3389privaterentalmarketinlondonapril2025tomarch2026","graphSlug":"londons-private-rent-map"}]}