Ministers Consider New Supported Housing Duties

The government is considering imposing new legal duties on councils to provide supported housing, in a bid to safeguard a proposed housing benefit top-up fund. Ministers are considering requiring councils to provide “certain types of housing” in response to fears that local authorities would spend the extra cash earmarked to meet higher costs of supported housing elsewhere.  Ministers are intending to cap housing benefit for supported housing tenants in line with LHA levels from 2019/20. The government plans to devolve extra funding locally to help tenants cover the more expensive rents in supported housing. Read more on Inside Housing.