The number of homeless families being housed outside London has seen a ten-fold increase over the last two years.
Figures obtained by Darren Johnson, head of the London Assembly’s Green party, under the Freedom of Information Act show that 222 families with school-age children were housed by London boroughs outside the capital in the first three quarters of 2013/14, compared to 21 in 2010/11.
A total of 2,687 other homeless families with children were moved to another London borough in the same period, compared to 1,428 in 2010/11.