*New rough sleepers are defined as people who had never been seen rough sleeping prior to 2015/16.
Rough sleepers were reported and verified by services who work directly with the street population in London. This includes: outreach teams, rough sleeper assessment and reconnection services, accommodation projects, including hostels, second-stage accommodation and supported housing projects, day centres and other specialist services.
This statistic shows a distribution of people reported to be sleeping rough for the first in London, United Kingdom (UK), in 2017/18, by reason why they left their last settled base. The main reason for ** percent of rough sleepers was that they were asked to leave or were evicted from their last settled base.
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St Mungo’s Broadway. (June 30, 2019). Distribution of new rough sleepers in London (UK) in 2018/19, by reason for leaving last settled base* [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved August 04, 2026, from /statistics/381381/london-homelessness-new-rough-sleepers-reasons/
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