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Council spending £48k a week on temporary housing
Llanelli Star
|September 10, 2025
THE number of people placed in temporary accommodation in Carmarthenshire has fallen considerably - but the costs haven’t.
Like all local authorities, Carmarthenshire Council helps people who are at risk of becoming homeless and this involves bed and breakfast and other forms of short-term accommodation.
Demand has soared in Wales in recent years although the number of people placed in temporary housing has remained steady since the second half of 2023, a report by Audit Wales in July found.
Carmarthenshire Council spent just over £2.51m on temporary accommodation in 2024-25 - the equivalent of £48,354 per week - supporting 217 households.
The previous year, 2023-24, it spent £2.88m accommodating 287 households and the year before that it spent £2.6m helping 363 households.
The figures, provided following a Freedom of Information request by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, also revealed that one person spent 25 months in bed and breakfast accommodation during that time.
This story is from the September 10, 2025 edition of Llanelli Star.
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