I ended up homeless a couple of years ago, though not for the reason you've mentioned. I lived with my partner and our son in his mothers house (we're only relatively young and buying a house nowadays is a ludicrous suggestion!). We split up, so obviously I had to be the one to go. Yippee. Our borough council gave me a room in the local family hostel, which to be perfectly honest was not a nice place to be. I'm pretty laid back about most things but it bothered me. People just see me as hard faced a lot of the time, but I had to be to get through living in that hostel!
Anyway, being a single mum they're obliged to find you a home within 5 months, they managed it on the dot with me. My son and I have now got a two bedroom semi-detached council house in one of the better areas of my town. So eventually it worked out alright for me, it'll do until we can buy somewhere anyway!
If a person already has their name on the council list like I had they'll have a certain amount of points but once you're classed as homeless they mean nothing, you're top of the list. You're just in the way and a burden to the council otherwise!
In our borough, if there's no room in the hostel they'll put you up in a B&B, though I don't know how long they are prepared to do this for.
Hope that helped anyway.
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