Posted 23.06.17
GOV UK: Article link
This publication provides information on the number of households that reported being homeless (or threatened with homelessness) to their local authority and were offered housing assistance.
Between 1 January and 31 March 2017, local authorities accepted 14,600 households as being statutorily homeless - up 1% on the previous quarter and down 1% on the same quarter of last year.
These are households that are owed a main homelessness duty to secure accommodation as a result of being unintentionally homeless and in priority need.
The total number of households in temporary accommodation on 31 March 2017 was 77,240 - up 8% on a year earlier and up 61% on the low of 48,010 on 31 December 2010.
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Posted 15.06.17
FEANTSA: Article link
FEANTSA, the Migrants' Rights Network and Praxis have launched a complaint before the European Commission regarding the UK Government's use of European Economic Area regulations to remove rough sleepers and their family members, on the basis that they are misusing their right to reside.
According to this approach, mobile EU citizens who are working or seeking work in the UK, or even who have been in the UK for less than 3 months, may be subject to administrative removal solely because they are sleeping rough.
FEANTSA believes that interpreting rough sleeping as a form of misuse of a right to reside contravenes EEA rules. It is encouraging the European Commission to start investigations and launch a formal infringement procedure.
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Updated 28.06.17
