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 Benefit 101
Come along to our free webinar which will provide an introduction to Housing Benefit for accommodation service providers. It is suitable for managers and leaders who seek to understand the mechanisms of accessing Housing Benefit as an income stream for their service.
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Preventing Evictions, Abandonments and Exclusions
This course will explore practical ways to reduce unplanned moves from your service.
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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Prevention Into Action
Research exploring the gaps and opportunities for locally-led homelessness prevention in England.
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Funding Homelessness Prevention
Report defining the parameters of an ideal voluntary and community sector funding programme to advance homelessness prevention in England.
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Response to Government Consultation on Social Housing Allocations. March 2024
Homeless Link has responded to the government consultation on social housing allocations on behalf of our members. You can read the full response here
Latest news on accommodation
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Prevention: the 'golden thread' in a national homelessness strategy
New research by Homeless Link, Cardiff University and Heriot-Watt University reveals gaps and opportunities in locally-led homelessness prevention.
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Seeking solutions to prevent homelessness for people leaving prison
As the government brings forward early prison release, Vicky Album looks at the implications for the homelessness sector and explores some of the better practice that can be adopted to prevent prison leavers becoming homeless.
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Chancellor’s inaction on homelessness is dangerous
Homeless Link responds to the Budget announced on 6 March.