The Homelessness Reduction Act requires councils to
provide homelessness assistance to any UK citizen or person with the right to
reside in the UK. This imposes new legal obligations on local authorities to
actively prevent and relieve homelessness. With the dramatic rise of
homelessness over the past eight years (rough sleeping is up 169 per cent since
2010), it’s a crucial piece of legislation. But councils are struggling to keep
up with their new obligations – and
could be putting the very people who rely on their housing services at risk of
homelessness. This is due to a lack of resources from central government to
enact the new Act. Read more on the New Statesman website.
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