Thisrelates to households which have been placed in temporary accommodation by alocal authority under the Homeless Persons legislation, and includes householdsfor whom the local authority’s decision and final action is still pending, aswell as households which were secured such accommodation as a final action.The following tablegives the number of households in temporary accommodation on the 31 March 1996 through to 31 March 2006. The table is broken down by whether the localauthority is wholly or partly in the South of Scotland region.