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Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government have launched a strategy to end rough sleeping by 2027. The strategy will be backed by an additional £100 million and developed across government in conjunction with charities and experts. It lays out a 3-pronged approach to tackling rough sleeping, including: preventing rough sleeping by providing timely support to those at risk intervening to help people already on

Housing First (HF) is an alternative homelessness intervention strategy, aimed at people with complex needs, particularly rough sleepers. This House of Commons Library paper describes the principles behind Housing First and outlines some of the evidence behind it. The paper also sets out how Housing First has developed in the UK, and what support that it has been offered by the governments of the UK,

The last few years have seen increasing political will to address homelessness, with crossparty commitments to end rough sleeping and tackle homelessness more broadly. The passing of the Homelessness Reduction Act (2017) and establishment of the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, are important steps forward in efforts to prevent and tackle homelessness. However, it is necessary to go beyond commitments to end rough sleeping

National Federation of ALMOs (NFA) and the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) have published a joint report highlighting the increasing burden of debt that Universal Credit is causing for tenants and landlords, and calling for Government to slow down the roll-out. For more information or to read their report please click here

Child refugees in this country suffer mental health problems long after they get here. They don’t get the mental health care they need and it’s making their pain worse. With proper mental health care, child refugees can recover and rebuild their lives. The Government must give child refugees the long-term mental health care they desperately need. This report provides an overview of what is currently

The UK’s exit from the European Union will pose major challenges and opportunities for every policy area – including the growing issue of homelessness. The ‘core homeless’ population in Great Britain stood at 160,000 households in 2016. Brexit’s most immediate potential impacts on homelessness and the experience of homeless people are on EU nationals who are currently in Great Britain and experiencing homelessness. But the

Households living in social housing are over twice as likely to be out of work as private renters, and over four times more likely than owner-occupiers. The Centre for Social Justice have published a report – Social housing and employment: Helping social housing be the springboard to a better life – which states that the drive to increase housing supply “should not come at the

This report from St Mungo’s describes the findings from a small-scale, exploratory, qualitative research project that considered the question ‘why do some people return to sleeping rough after time off the streets?’ Read the full report

This briefing paper provides statistics on statutory homelessness in England and explains local authorities’ duties to assist homeless households. The paper includes an overview of, and comment on, Government policy in this area. What is statutory homelessness? Local authorities in England have a duty to secure accommodation for unintentionally homeless households who fall into a ‘priority need’ category.  There is no duty to secure accommodation