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In August, the Home Office reduced the notice period given to people granted refugee status to leave asylum accommodation. This decision caused homelessness among refugees to triple between August and October compared to the same period in 2022. The Home Office has now announced it is ending the policy and returning to the original 28 day notice period from receipt of their Biometric Residence Permit (BRP).

We're delighted to welcome SAFE ARMS as a new member of Homeless Link!

Thanks to pressure from the homelessness and migrant sector, at the start of this month, the Home Office announced that refugee evictions from asylum accommodation would be temporarily paused over periods of Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.

We're delighted to welcome YMCA Humber as a new member of Homeless Link!

In our latest spotlight on the work of Homeless Link’s Partnership Managers, Rose Smith reflects on the importance of ongoing learning and reflection as part of the role of the Partnership Manager.

The Criminal Justice Bill contains wide-ranging new punitive powers for police and local authorities to deal with people sleeping rough. Campaigns Manager Nye Jones explains why homelessness services should be concerned about the legislation and what they can do to raise these concerns.

Homeless Link is pleased to be a supporter of the London Rough Sleeping Charter which is launching today. The charter sets out principles for working with people who sleep rough and suggests the different ways that members of the public can help.

Quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness show a big rise. This is Homeless Link's media response.

We're delighted to welcome Reset-21 CIC as a new member of Homeless Link!

The UKHSA have published an evidence review and toolkit that can help local organisations plan and deliver warm spaces.

With the weather getting significantly colder, supported accommodation and floating support providers need to take action to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those using their services.

Homeless Link are looking for your ideas for great practice in homelessness that can we can help capture, evaluate and share.

25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. At Homeless Link, we reflect on the good practice and resources that can help support your service and develop understanding of these issues further.

Leicestershire County Council have approved a proposal to de-commission its homelessness support contract from March 2024, Homeless Link responds.

The Chancellor finally announced that the LHA rate would be uprated, but punitive welfare measures and no change to the benefit cap means the Autumn Statement was a mixed bag, writes Policy Manager Cat Tottie.

In the 2023 Autumn Statement, the Government announced it was uplifting the LHA rate, which had previouslt been frozen since April 2020.

Read our guest blog about the development of a new resource for the sector: The Safeguarding Toolkit for Multiple Exclusion Homelessness.

Homeless Link has joined a coalition of leading organisations in health and homelessness to issue an urgent open letter, coordinated by Pathway, to the new Home Secretary James Celeverly expressing deep concerns over changes to Home Office practice affecting refugees granted asylum decisions.

Experts at the national Housing First Conference agreed that the approach should be recognised for what it is - a successful intervention for people experiencing complex disadvantage that goes far beyond simply addressing rough sleeping.

The difference between how Housing Benefit and Universal Credit calculate earnings mean some people living in hostels are actually worse off if they find employment. BHT Sussex have launched a campaign to address this.