Funding arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant from 2026/27 onwards

The Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG) is provided to all local authorities in England to support their statutory obligations and to help deliver local homelessness and rough sleeping strategies.

This consultation is seeking views on HPG and the formula that is used to calculate the need for funding. This consultation will consider proposals on the measures and metrics used to ensure need is calculated accurately based on current and relative pressures.

To help visualise and consider our proposed changes, we have also published illustrative allocations below. These do not account for any adjustments for available resources, which government is considering as part of wider reforms to local government funding. They are also highly likely to change when the calculations are re-run using the latest available data when allocations are finalised. These should not be considered as representative figures for future allocations.

For information on the allocation of Homelessness Prevention Grant funding for local authorities in the financial year 2025 to 2026 see the Homelessness Prevention Grant 2025-26: technical note.