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All local authorities in England have a legal duty to provide 24-hour advice to homeless people, or those who are at risk of becoming homeless within 28 days.. A local authority must accept an application for assistance from a person seeking homelessness assistance if they have reason to believe that the person may be homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Accounting and Finance Legislation Year Introduced Title of Duty Function Local Government Finance Act Section 25 1992 Budget calculations: report on robustness of estimates etc - where an authority to which s32 or s43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (billing or major precepting authority) or s85 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (GLA) applies is making calculations in ...
Once an individual applies to the appropriate City Council, Borough Council, District Council or Unitary Authority for assistance, from a person claiming to be homeless (or threatened with homelessness), the Local Housing Authority is also legally duty bound to make detailed inquiries into that person's circumstances, in order to decide whether ...
An authority's duty to homeless people, who are not intentionally homeless, now ceases if they refuse reasonable accommodation. The housing authorities must publish a "tenancy strategy" giving the types of tenancy provided, the circumstances under which they are granted, their length and the circumstances in which they may be extended.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is the closest the city and county have had to an overarching authority. It was created as a joint city-county agency in 1993 to help the two ...
An Act to make provision about housing, including provision about the social rented sector, houses in multiple occupation, landlord and tenant matters, the administration of housing benefit, the conduct of tenants, the allocation of housing accommodation by local housing authorities and homelessness; and for connected purposes. Citation: 1996 c. 52
(The Center Square) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the state’s authority to clear unauthorized homeless encampments from public property, dissolving a lower court’s ...
(The Center Square) – Exiting King County Executive Dow Constantine is doubling down on a housing-first approach to addressing the homelessness crisis in a recent interview with ChangeWA.