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Ending homelessness must be a key priority for the new government.
Ending homelessness must be a key priority for the new government.
With rough sleeping increasing by 27% in a year, record numbers in temporary accommodation and almost 325,000 households homeless or at risk of it in the last year, it is vital that the Government commits to implementing measures to end this crisis.
There are lots of changes to the system needed to end homelessness. Below are the six key areas we have been raising with policy makers over the last year as priority issues to tackle the homelessness emergency.
We will continue to press these issues on a national level, working with the Government and partners across the sector and using both our clients’ voices and our service expertise.
Rough sleeping has increased by 120% since 2010, and almost 80,000 households are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
Despite this, critical funding for homelessness services is due to end in April 2025, leaving services like ours at risk of closure.
Read our open letter calling on government to prevent the financial cliff edge for vital homelessness services.
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Protect renters from homelessness by raising standards, increasing affordability and improving security of tenure for private rented homes.
The private rented sector is the form of housing which is seeing the largest increase in those at risk of homelessness. The next government must reintroduce the Renters’ Reform Bill with comprehensive measures to protect renters from homelessness.
Government should also review practices to reduce homelessness amongst prison and hospital leavers.
The next government must increase the benefit cap to allow people to claim their full LHA entitlement to help them into housing.
Housing Benefit and Universal credit taper rates must also have parity and be set at 55% and the Housing Benefit disregard should be increased to make work pay for those in supported housing.
The next government should reform our health system to prioritise people with multiple complex needs and address unmet health needs which are a cause and consequence of homelessness; requiring Integrated Care Boards to have a dedicated focus on tackling health inequalities for inclusion health populations, with sustainable ring-fenced funding.
Without a long term plan for appropriate, and affordable housing, the homelessness crisis will not end.
To help break the cycle, a new government must commit to delivering the sector recommended target of building 90,000 social rented homes a year and to a 10 year plan and significant grant funding to meet housing need.
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