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What assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the decision to cap housing benefit for supported accommodation at local housing allowance rates on homelessness.
What assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the decision to cap housing benefit for supported accommodation at local housing allowance rates on homelessness.
The Government are committed to protecting the vulnerable, including homeless people. That is why we deferred the implementation of the local housing allowance rates for supported housing until April 2019. From then on, we will provide a new funding model to meet additional housing costs above the local housing allowance rates.
That is all very well, but the chief executive of the National Housing Federation has already stated:
“We want to put supported housing on a secure and sustainable footing for the long term and we are not confident that the new system will guarantee this.”
What is wrong with that point of view?
That is all very well, but the chief executive of the National Housing Federation has already stated:
“We want to put supported housing on a secure and sustainable footing for the long term and we are not confident that the new system will guarantee this.”
What is wrong with that point of view?
I have met the chief executive of the National Housing Federation and discussed this issue with him at some length. We are giving confidence to the sector that funding will be devolved to local authorities, and that that funding will be ring-fenced. Save for the changes to social rent increases, the quantum of funding to the sector will be the same. The chief executive seemed reasonably reassured on that point.
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of planned reductions in social rents and housing benefit support on supported housing.
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of planned reductions in social rents and housing benefit support on supported housing.
The Government have always been clear that the most vulnerable will be protected and supported through our welfare reforms. Following our review of supported housing, which is due to report shortly, we will continue to work with the sector to ensure that appropriate protections are in place.
That is all very well, but why then do St Mungo’s, Centrepoint, the Salvation Army and the National Housing Federation, to name just a few organisations, all think that the Government’s proposals will hit supported housing hard and will reduce the number of places available? Should the Minister not listen to the people who are providing the service rather than to his own political dogma?
That is all very well, but why then do St Mungo’s, Centrepoint, the Salvation Army and the National Housing Federation, to name just a few organisations, all think that the Government’s proposals will hit supported housing hard and will reduce the number of places available? Should the Minister not listen to the people who are providing the service rather than to his own political dogma?
I gently say to the right hon. Gentleman that Howard Sinclair, the chief executive of St Mungo’s Broadway, has said:
“This is a sensible and reasoned decision by the government”.
The chief executive of YMCA England has said that the Government
“has taken appropriate action to protect supported housing.”
We have decided to delay things for a year while we work with the sector to make sure we have a good and well-protected sector in future.