Council to Place Families in One-Bedroom Flats

Parents of children under three years old are now expected to share a bedroom with their child under emergency changes to a council’s housing allocations policy. Westminster Council has altered its rules so homeless families consisting of one or two parents and a child under three can be moved from temporary accommodation into one-bedroom properties. Previously they would have been placed in two-bedroom homes. The Labour group on the council said the authority was treating homeless people ‘like second class citizens’ and the change in policy showed the ‘depth of the worsening housing crisis’. It said if families refused the offer of a one-bedroom property the council would not offer them any further support.  Read more on Inside Housing.