Agenda Reports Pack (Public) 15/10/2012, 19.00 - Meetings ...

Building a Housing Ladder of Opportunity - Homelessness StrategyContents1. Summary2. Reviewing the Council and its Partners’ Approach to HomelessnessPreventionEvidence Base Headline FindingsReviewing Joint WorkingHammersmith & Fulham’s Housing Options ServiceFuture ‘Direction of Travel’3. 2012 – Year of Housing Change2011 Localism ActMayor of London’s Revised London Housing StrategyBuilding a Housing Ladder of Opportunity Work Programme4. Future PrioritiesTheme 1 – Preventative Action – Identifying and Helping Need GroupsTheme 2 – Housing Allocation Scheme and Flexible TenanciesTheme 3 – New Housing SupplyTheme 4 – Future Service DeliveryAnnex 1 – ReferencesAnnex 2 – Evidence BaseAnnex 3 – Mayor of London’s Revised Housing Strategy Policy AbstractsNote: Section 148 of the Localism Act amends section 193 of the Housing Act 1996to allow housing authorities to make “private rented sector offers” to end thehomeless duty to a household. The Government published in May 2012 the followingdocument Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2012 –Consultation which set out how the Government expected local authorities toconsider the suitability of accommodation for homeless people regarding both itsquality and its location. At the time of preparing this Homelessness Strategy, theGovernment was in the process of considering responses and is expected to publishits final document later in 2012. Once published, the Council will adopt a procedurenote that will introduce its approach to this issue.2Page 447