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The homes are purchased in part, using money from Right to Buy receipts. This is the money the council gets from selling council homes to existing tenants and which it has to use to fund further housing otherwise it has to be repaid to the HM Treasury. Three of the homes are single bedroom and were bought using £600,000 of Government funding for the Next Steps Accommodation Programme. The properties will be used as non-secure tenancies to help those moving on from homelessness. And the scheme is similar to Housing First, where a stable home is given to a vulnerable person who wants a tenancy so they can rebuild their life.
File photo dated 16/01/20 of homeless people sleeping. More than 100 homeless people in Reading have been moved into settled accommodation. Between March and August 2020, 264 individuals were provided accommodation through the ‘Everyone In’ initiative aimed at providing all homeless people with temporary housing during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reading Borough Council (RBC) has gone a step further and managed to house 129 – almost half – of these people permanently. Councillor John Ennis, lead member for Housing, revealed the latest situation in response to a question from Green councillor Rob White at RBC’s Full Council meeting on Tuesday, January 26. Cllr White praised the council’s ‘Everyone in’ response last year and asked for an update on the council’s progress with permanently housing rough sleepers.
Five empty homes in Coventry to be bought to house homeless
It will support people who were helped off the street during the coronavirus pandemic
05:00, 21 JAN 2021 (Image: iStockphoto)
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Five empty homes in Coventry will be brought back into use to provide long-term accommodation for homeless people in the city.