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Housing Strategies and Homelessness Strategies
Housing Strategies
The government's national housing strategy is Sustainable Communities: Homes for All
Regional Housing Strategies
All Regional Housing Bodies as they were then constituted were required to produce new Regional Housing Strategies by July 2005 and the ODPM (now the DCLG) produced guidance on roles and responsibilities, including those of the Housing Corporation. Links to each region's strategy are below:
East Midlands Regional Housing Strategy
East of England Regional Housing Strategy
North East Regional Housing Strategy
North West Regional Housing Strategy
South East Regional Housing Strategy
South West Regional Housing Strategy
Homelessness Strategies
The government's national homelessness strategy is Sustainable Communities: settled homes; changing lives, which states:
"We will encourage and support the development of regional homelessness groups, including the development of regional (and sub-regional) homelessness strategies and Supporting People strategies."
Regional and sub-regional Homelessness Strategies
Some regions have produced regional homelessness strategies, which Homeless Link supports.
In London, there is no regional homelessness strategy, although the Mayor has produced a Housing Advice Strategy, aimed at preventing homelessness.
The West London Housing Partnership, covering Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Kensington & Chelsea, is producing a sub-regional homelessness strategy.
In the North West, the Government Office is writing a regional homelessness strategy, which was a recommendation of its regional housing strategy.
There is no homelessness strategy for the South East nor one in progress. However, the Region's Housing Strategy reads:
"We would encourage all local authorities to have regard to ODPM's recent consultation on a National Homelessness Strategy, which seeks to promote a more detailed understanding of the issues and promotes joined up activity and resources allocations. There is potential to develop a regional homeless strategy expanding upon the recently published report on Homelessness in the South East Region available at www.raise-networks.org.uk." (page 27)
Raise is Regional Action and Involvement South East, a network of voluntary and community organisations who have a strategic role in the region. The report cited was published in February 2005.
In the West Midlands, the Regional Assembly commissioned a Regional Homelessness Strategy, which informed the West Midlands Regional Housing Strategy
In Yorkshire and the Humber there is not a regional homelessness strategy but there is a regional homelessness forum and other regional groups.
Local Authority Homelessness Strategies
Links to the homelessness strategies of individual local authorities can be found on Homeless Pages and Shelter's homelessnessact website, which requires users to log in.
DCLG Housing Strategies: Good Practice Handbook
DCLG/Housing Quality Network Report: Local Authorities' Homeless Strategies Evaluation and Good Practice