Council Taken To Court Over Allocation Scheme That ‘Removes Homeless Families From Housing Register’

A London council’s allocations scheme which is accused of “removing a very significant proportion of homeless people” from its social housing register is to be challenged in the High Court. Lambeth Council is being challenged over the lawfulness of its ‘Temp to Settled’ policy, which offers to assign a higher level of priority to homeless households on the social housing register if they withdraw their homeless application and move into private rented accommodation. However, those who have accepted this offer and moved outside the borough have then found themselves removed from the list due to the loss of a local connection. Read more on Inside Housing.

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