Two cross-party select committees have “strongly
recommended” the government rethinks its plans to introduce a top-up fund for
short-term supported housing controlled by councils. The HCLG Select Committee
and the Work and Pensions Select Committee chairs wrote to Heather Wheeler, the
junior minister responsible for supported housing. They called for the
government to only fund emergency accommodation through a top-up fund and
include all other short-term supported housing under its ‘sheltered rent’ plan.
Under the proposals a sheltered rent would apply to extra care and sheltered
housing, but short-term accommodation up to two years, such as women’s refuges
and homelessness shelters, would be funded through council grants. Read more on
Inside Housing.
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