Homelessness Used To Secure Tenancies

Households are making themselves homeless so they stand a chance of being allocated a social tenancy, the National Housing Federation has said. The body is calling for reform of the allocations system, and has launched a consultation on the subject. The paper calls for greater flexibility for housing associations and local authorities to draw up allocations systems based on their local housing conditions. It describes a ‘vicious circle where more people become homeless to maximise their chances, and reduce their waiting time for accessing social housing’. It states: ‘If we do not change how the homelessness duties interact with the allocation framework we will not achieve fairer routes into social housing.’ Find more details of the consultation on the NHF website.