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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Homelessness Law, Practice and the Homelessness Reduction Act
Develop your understanding of the statutory duties the people you support may be owed by Local Authorities, including the duties of the Homelessness Reduction Act.
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Housing Law: DIY Possessions
Build on your knowledge, skills and confidence on Section 21 to enable you to prepare and present information in county court proceedings for possession of assured shorthold tenancy (AST).
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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Understanding hoarding
Updated: 22/1/25
Guidance on understanding hoarding including why people hoard, and how to support someone who has a hoarding issue.
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Funding Homelessness Prevention
Updated: 20/1/25
Report defining the parameters of an ideal voluntary and community sector funding programme to advance homelessness prevention in England.
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Preventing evictions and abandonment
Updated: 17/1/25
Practical guidance for people working in supported accommodation settings to prevent evictions and abandonments.
Latest news on accommodation
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Making housing work for Housing First
Cathy Michaels from Bromford Housing Association, describes her Housing First journey from sceptic to advocate, to clear up misconceptions hampering social housing provider involvement.
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Atlas of Homelessness Services in London - 2025 release now online
Unique website showing services for homeless people across London is updated for 2025 by London Housing Foundation in partnership with Homeless Link.
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England got homelessness service commissioning right before, and it can again
The lack of ringfenced funding for supported housing and the resulting removal of the mandatory national quality standards have created a bleak race to the bottom, writes Lee Buss-Blair of Riverside, as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.