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Why housing, income and support are all key to achieving independence and realising potential

Why housing, income and support are all key to achieving independence and realising potential. Rick Henderson Chief Executive Homeless Link. We know what to do…. A Place to Call Your Home. And we know why….

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Why housing, income and support are all key to achieving independence and realising potential

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  1. Why housing, income and support are all key to achieving independence and realising potential • Rick Henderson • Chief Executive • Homeless Link

  2. We know what to do…..

  3. A Place to Call Your Home

  4. And we know why… • 16% increase in households accepted as homeless by councils in England – Jan-March 2012 compared Jan-March 2011 • 5,678 rough sleepers in London in 2011/12, 43% increase from previous year – CHAIN • Rough sleeping rising a 23% increase from 2010 to 2011, further 6% increase 2011-12 – Rough Sleeping Counts & Estimates

  5. And we know why… • Key welfare changes introduced • Funding cuts continue • Access to housing for low income/vulnerable people at an all time low • And everything else… (NHS reforms and Public Health changes, transforming rehabilitation, Policing cuts, continuing austerity and localism…)

  6. But…do we know how?

  7. …and do we want to?

  8. “For at least 15 years we have been building roughly half the homes we need” • Mark Prisk MP Housing Minister

  9. The scale of the problem… • We need at least 233,000 new homes every year (DCLG) • Social housing waiting lists up 80% since 1997 with 1 in 12 families in England now on a waiting list (NHF) • 417,830 more working people now reliant on HB to help pay the rents, an 86% increase in 3 years (NHF) • • Only 5.5% of shared properties in London are affordable to under 35s on benefits • • Welfare reforms have added an additional 12,000 claimants competing for rooms in shared accommodation • • Private Rent levels have increased by 37% in the last 5 years and are predicted to rise by a further 29% in the next 5 • • Less than 1% of landlords state they are willing to accept tenants claiming benefits (Homeless Link ‘Nowhere to Move’)

  10. What do we want? • Housing policy needs to prioritise those most in need • Better integration of housing and labour market policies • Safeguards to ensure welfare reform does not cause homelessness • Bring more empty homes into use • National and local programmes to support move-on from temporary accommodation • Develop innovative models eg Housing First • PRS needs to work in partnership to make rents more affordable, tenancies more sustainable • Time for a legal right to accom for single people???

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