Your support is helping people experiencing homelessness access mental health support
50% of people sleeping rough in London require mental health support.
The relationship between mental health and homelessness is deeply interconnected, with each often exacerbating the other. Mental health issues can not only lead to homelessness but also be worsened by structural factors like lack of support, poverty, and housing instability.
And the problem is only getting worse
There is inadequate access to mental health services; in a survey of frontline homelessness workers in 2022, 75% described accessing mental health support for people they worked with as ‘difficult’ or ‘very difficult’. And the number of people experiencing homelessness is increasing too. Latest Government statistics show that 178,560 households were assessed as homeless: up 12.3 per cent, with 117,450 households living in temporary accommodation, the highest number since records began in 1998.