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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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Join Homeless Link and Providence Row as we launch research that aims to enhance nutrition and recovery among people experiencing homelessness and share practical actions that homelessness staff can take to improve access to healthy food and nutrition for the people they support.
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Housing in Housing First
Come along to our free webinar where we will hear from four different Housing First services about the ways they have worked to increase the supply of social housing, manage effective partnerships with housing providers, and adopt the Housing First principles into housing management teams.
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Updated: 08/5/25
Animations and a research report to help services and staff improve nutrition among people experiencing homelessness and using substances.
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Cuckooing and homelessness
Updated: 07/5/25
A guide to cuckooing and why it is something that homeless services need to be watching out for.
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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.
Latest news on accommodation
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Could the private rented sector be the key to tackling homelessness?
The negative narrative around private rents misses a vital, growing part of the sector, the so called ‘mediated market’, writes Louise Winterburn of World Habitat.
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London Lettings Network: The ‘Housing Benefit Rightmove’
Homeless Link's Innovation Forum heard from Housing Justice about an initiative to improve access to move on accommodation in London
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Let’s seize this opportunity for homelessness prevention
Preventing homelessness is not only the most cost-effective approach, but also the most humane, writes Nicci Marzec, of charity Aspire Oxfordshire as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign.