Sheffield Failure Proves Housing First Can’t Work Anywhere In The UK

A Housing First service in Sheffield has failed spectacularly as it could not find 10 suitable and affordable properties from either private or social landlords in a city of over half a million people and 240,000 households and properties. The Housing First model can’t even find housing in a low rent cost housing area such as Sheffield.  If a miserly 10 suitable properties cannot be found in Sheffield then what chance do the larger scale Housing First models to be operated in Liverpool and Manchester have and both of those cities have fewer housing properties than Sheffield? Read more on the Speye Joe blog.

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