Home Safe
We believe everyone should have the right to open and close their own front door and feel safe and secure in their own accommodation. Sadly for many people this isn’t the case.
Our Home Safe strategy
- Undertake a comprehensive review of the full range of accommodation options that are available to individuals and couples experiencing homelessness, to include the scale, scope and quality of services across the country. Use the findings of this review to make recommendations for the future development of accommodation services
- Drive the scaling up of high fidelity Housing First as a solution for people facing multiple disadvantage for whom traditional models don’t work
- Working with partners, support the development of data-informed housing and homelessness strategies at both a local and national level, which tackle rough sleeping and other forms of homelessness, including hidden homelessness
- Strengthen links and explore partnerships with relevant housing and funding/investment organisations in order to increase the availability of high quality, affordable accommodation for people experiencing homelessness
- Campaign to secure positive progress on the need for adequate and long term secure funding for supported housing in all its forms, as part of a comprehensive welfare safety net
Forthcoming events on accommodation
These are some of our forthcoming training and events on accommodation:
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Housing First Fidelity Framework: self-reflection tool action plans
Community of Practice for Housing First practitioners and managers focused on using the new Housing First fidelity assurance framework.
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Modular housing: a solution to ending homelessness?
Come along to our free webinar exploring Modular and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) as a means of ending homelessness.
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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Accessing accommodation in the private rented sector
Updated: 10/1/25
Read our guidance on how to engage with landlords to find accommodation in the private rented sector, along with tips on how to support individuals to maintain their tenancies.
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2023 Annual Review of Support for Single Homeless People in England
Updated: 18/12/24
Homeless Link's annual survey of homelessness sector support tracks changes in the nature and availability of services, the support needs and circumstances of the people accessing services, and opportunities and challenges for the sector.
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Supported Housing and Housing Benefit
Updated: 13/12/24
Watch our webinar on an introduction to Housing Benefit for accommodation service providers.
Latest news on accommodation
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Annual review of the sector reveals immense pressures
Key findings from Homeless Link 2023 research into single homelessness support and how this important evidence supports our government influencing work.
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Home Office confirms that evictions from asylum accommodation will pause when SWEP is activated
From the 18th November 2024, with immediate effect, the Home Office has confirmed that evictions of individuals from asylum accommodation will pause for a period of up to, but no more than, 3 days when Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is activated by a Local Authority.
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More than 110 homelessness CEOs call for National Insurance support
Homeless Link has coordinated a letter to the Chancellor laying out the sectors' acute concerns on the impact of the increased National Insurance contributions.