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Publication - Research and analysis

Scottish Housing Market Review Q4 2025

Published
23 January 2026
From
Cabinet Secretary for Housing
Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate, +1 more … Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic
Housing
ISBN
9781806436866

Quarterly bulletin collating a range of previously published statistics on the latest trends in the Scottish housing market.

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9. Homelessness

No new data on homelessness has been published since the last edition of the Scottish Housing Market Review. As a result, this section remains unchanged from our previous publication.

Between April 2024 and March 2025 in Scotland, more households were assessed as homeless (34,067) than during the same period the previous year (33,955), which represents an increase of 0.3%. There was also a rise in the number of households in temporary accommodation: as at 31 March 2025, 17,240 households were in temporary accommodation, compared to 16,330 a year earlier – an increase of 5.6%. In contrast, the number of households submitting a homelessness application fell over the year, from 41,054 in 2023-24 to 40,688 in 2024-25 (a decrease of 0.9%).

Across all local authorities in Scotland, Dundee City had the largest annual percentage increase in homelessness applications of 18% (an increase from 1,386 to 1,638). Additionally, Dundee City saw the largest percentage increase in the number of applications assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness of 24% (an increase from 1,107 to 1,377). Meanwhile, Aberdeenshire had the largest percentage increase in households in temporary accommodation of 61% (an increase from 70 to 113).

Chart 9.1 Homelessness applications and assessments, and households in temporary accommodation: Scotland (Applications and assessments: fiscal year totals; Number of households in temporary accommodation: as at the end of each fiscal year)
Chart 9.1 plots the number of households who made homelessness applications, the number of households assessed as homeless, and the number of households living in temporary accommodation in Scotland on a quarterly basis.

Source: Scottish Government

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