Supported housing providers are keeping development
schemes on hold, despite a recent assurance from the government that current
levels of funding will be maintained in the future. In September, the
government announced that councils would be given control of a ringfenced fund
to make up the funding shortfall caused by extending the Local Housing
Allowance (LHA)-linked housing benefit cap to supported housing from April
2019. A detailed consultation was published last month. But concerns over how
local authorities will administer those funds, as well as the ongoing
permanence of the ring fence, mean frozen development plans remain on ice. Read
more on Inside Housing.
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