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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Preventing evictions and abandonment
Updated: 02/7/25
Practical guidance for people working in supported accommodation settings to prevent evictions and abandonments.
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Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation: Homeless Link response
Updated: 21/5/25
Homeless Link's response to Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation
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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.
Latest news on accommodation
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Annual review of support to end homelessness reveals a sector stretched to the limits
Homeless Link launches its annual research report exploring trends in support for single homelessness.
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Theatre as an approach to participation and catalyst for change
Reflections on Groundswell's Legislative Theatre project in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Services honoured in Homeless Link's national Excellence Awards 2025
The five winners of our annual awards have been announced, highlighting the vital work taking place to end homelessness across England.