# A home without security

> Rent, possession action, temporary accommodation and rough sleeping mark different points in London’s housing emergency.

- Category: Housing
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/a-home-without-security](https://londongraph.com/story/a-home-without-security)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/a-home-without-security](https://londongraph.com/data/story/a-home-without-security)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-08-02T22:02:45.417Z

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.

## Evidence

### Temporary accommodation

Households placed in temporary accommodation per 1,000 households by borough.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `temporary-accommodation-by-borough`
- Explore: [temporary-accommodation-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/temporary-accommodation-by-borough)

### People seen rough sleeping

Outreach-recorded people by borough in the published reporting period.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `rough-sleeping-borough`
- Explore: [where-people-sleep-rough](https://londongraph.com/g/where-people-sleep-rough)
- Caveat: Outreach contacts are not a complete census of everyone sleeping rough.

### Private-landlord possession pressure

Private-landlord possession claims relative to the published household denominator.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `landlord-possession-pressure`
- Explore: [landlord-possession-pressure](https://londongraph.com/g/landlord-possession-pressure)

### Two-bedroom rent

Median two-bedroom rent in the latest ONS purposive sample.

- Current computed headline: WC2B — 4,550 GBP pcm (Private Rental Market in London: April 2025 to March 2026)
- London median: 2,916.5 GBP pcm
- Release: Private Rental Market in London: April 2025 to March 2026
- Dataset: `londons-private-rent-map`
- Explore: [londons-private-rent-map](https://londongraph.com/g/londons-private-rent-map)

## Interpretation

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.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [MHCLG](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness)
- [CHAIN / GLA](https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/rough-sleeping-in-london-chain-reports-2n88x)
- [Ministry of Justice](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics)
- [ONS](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/3389privaterentalmarketinlondonapril2025tomarch2026)