Homelessness from 2022 - 2025

​​​​​​Request ​822434030​

Please supply data surrounding social housing and homelessness for years 2022,2023,2024, 2025, and the cost of this to the public purse.

Clarification requested:

“Please confirm what data is required in relation to:

• Social housing; and
• Homelessness.

In addition, please clarify what is meant by “the cost to the public purse”, including whether this relates to overall expenditure or to specific costs, services, or programmes

associated with social housing and/or homelessness.”

Clarification received:

• “Social Housing - Social housing refers to those housed with help from the State, for example, via Andium Homes.
• Homelessness - Homelessness refers to any financial impact to the State, resulting homelessness, for example, those housed in shelters, hostels, temporary accommodation etc... e.g. Shelter Trust and Salvation Army.
• 'Public purse' - the overall expenditure for the State of Jersey and as such, taxpayers”.

Response

Employment, Social Security and Housing (ESSH) has interpreted your request as seeking recorded information showing the cost to the public purse for the years 2022 to 2025, in relation to social housing and homelessness.

Following reasonable consideration, ESSH does not hold recorded information that directly quantifies overall expenditure in this form. Income Support expenditure and other payments are not recorded in a way that identifies accommodation costs for social housing or homelessness-related provision.

In accordance with Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, a public authority is required to provide access only to recorded information that it holds and is not required to create new information or carry out analysis to produce figures that are not already recorded.

However, to assist you, the following information published online may provide relevant contextual information:

• ​​Homelessness quarterly reports - contain high-level information on homelessness but do not provide a definitive or comprehensive breakdown of associated costs.
• Income Support accommodation distributions (OpenData) - illustrate the distribution of Income Support payments but do not identify accommodation specific costs or expenditure attributable to social housing or homelessness.
• Income Support expenditure dataset and narrative - outline the methodology for calculating Income Support and explain why expenditure cannot be directly attributed to accommodation costs. 
• Historic States Assembly Written Question - included for contextual reference only and should not be relied upon as current or complete data.
  

This information is provided for transparency and contextual understanding only and should not be interpreted as constituting the specific expenditure information requested.

Homelessness in Jersey Quarterly Reports 2025

Income Support Statistics - Income Support Accommodation Types - Government of Jersey Open Data​

Income Support Statistics - Income Support Annual Expenditure - Accommodation - Government of Jersey Open Data

States Assembly | WQ.4/2023​

Articles applied

Article 3- meaning of information held

Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​