Standing view · housing · Harborough
deteriorating, held with strong confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2026-07.
Households in temporary accommodation with children in Harborough rose to 32 in the first quarter of 2026, when 102 initial assessments were carried out, 95 households were owed a prevention or relief duty and 28 were owed a prevention duty. Rents rose slightly: a two-bedroom home cost £898 a month in March 2026, £900 in April and £901 in May. The average house price was £346,868 in May. The pressure here is in the homelessness figures rather than in rents.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Harborough. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Households in temporary accommodation with children | 2026-Q1 | deteriorating |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Initial assessments | 2026-Q1 | — |
| Owed a prevention or relief duty | 2026-Q1 | — |
| Prevention duty owed | 2026-Q1 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-03 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-04 | — |
| Average house price | 2026-05 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-05 | — |