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Housing and homelessness

Councils continue to face a number of challenges in housing

These include:

  • the continuing need to increase housing supply to meet housing need, especially in the supply of affordable homes and supported housing
  • addressing the financial and social pressures on local authorities from increasing homelessness and temporary accommodation requirements
  • limiting climate impacts and the move towards net zero housing, both in relation to the supply of new housing and the domestic retrofit of existing housing
  • responding to greater government involvement in the quality of social housing stock via the Ombudsman, and to greater awareness of poor service by local authorities and registered providers and the impact of substandard homes, by supporting them with their repairs and maintenance programmes
  • a renewed focus on housing led regeneration, delivering on the levelling up agenda

Homelessness preventionWe help councils and the wider public sector achieve their housing ambitions in a number of ways.

This includes

  • Providing technical support to assist housing delivery
  • Helping councils identify routes to maximise access to affordable housing, including new build housing, temporary and supported accommodation, and acquisition of existing stock
  • Helping councils assess the impact of reducing homelessness and with policy and process to achieve this
  • Improving housing quality through repairs and maintenance programmes
  • Establishing and, increasingly, reviewing housing delivery vehicles
  • Supporting the move towards net zero in existing housing stock through domestic retrofit programmes
  • Improving the quality of local authority funding bids to government programmes such as the Levelling Up Fund programme
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