# What homelessness duties achieve

> Prevention and relief are different legal duties, with different endings.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `homelessness-prevention-and-relief`
- Source: [MHCLG](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/homelessness-prevention-and-relief](https://londongraph.com/g/homelessness-prevention-and-relief)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/homelessness-prevention-and-relief](https://londongraph.com/data/homelessness-prevention-and-relief)

## Methodology

London totals from detailed tables P1 and R1. Prevention outcomes and relief outcomes are kept as separate series: an assessment, accommodation secured and a duty ending are not interchangeable events.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/homelessness-prevention-and-relief): Prevention and relief are different legal duties, with different endings.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/homelessness-prevention-and-relief?view=distribution): Show every published value around the median and quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.