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:
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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A New Season For Night Shelters
A research report by Juliette Hough and Becky Rice – June 2021.
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Homelessness Provision for the Future
Two major research reports from September 2021 looking at the state of the homelessness sector and best practice as we emerge from the pandemic. Working Together: the homelessness sector’s path beyond COVID looks at the lessons of pandemic and Homelessness Provision for the Future looks to the future.
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Homeless Link Submission on Exempt Accommodation
Evidence presented to Select Committee in February 2022
Latest news on accommodation
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Homeless Link joins Renters Reform Coalition
Homeless Link has joined the Renters Reform Coalition ahead of important government legislation.
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Homeless Link award £3.8 million Homelessness Transformation Funding
In partnership with Housing Justice and on behalf of the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities, Homeless Link are delighted to announce £3.8 million of Homelessness Transformation Funding has been awarded, £1 million of which is for Capital and £2.8 million for Revenue.
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Some short-term wins, but Budget fails to address root causes or offer meaningful route to ending homelessness
Wednesday’s Budget announcements showed Government has been listening to some of the sector’s key demands, with key wins for young people experiencing homelessness and Universal Credit (UC) claimants.
