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Cabinet papers said in 2023/24, although Worthing had the second-highest number of households in temporary accommodation, it received less government support than other West Sussex councils per head.
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) was introduced by the government of the United Kingdom on 7 April 2008 to provide Housing Benefit entitlement for tenants renting private-sector accommodation in England, Scotland and Wales. The LHA system introduced significant changes to the way Housing Benefit (HB) levels are restricted and how benefit is paid.
In Ireland, public housing and halting sites (sites used by semi-nomadic Traveller communities) have been built by local authorities and are known as Local Authority Accommodation. Dublin Corporation and the former Dublin County Council provided the lion's share of Irish local authority housing, with County Longford having the largest ratio of ...
Providing crisis accommodation or temporary accommodation may help reduce homelessness but it takes a lot of effort, time, resources and also other factors to accomplish their goals. These challenges are faced by the government, non-government agencies and the homeless people involved.
The Local Government Act 1929 gave local authorities the power to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitals, although outside London few did so. [97] The workhouse system was abolished in the UK by the same Act on 1 April 1930, but many workhouses, renamed Public Assistance Institutions, continued under the control of local county ...
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.
Funding was made available to local authorities in England and to the devolved administrations to provide such assistance in their areas as they saw fit [17] The funding was not 'ring-fenced' for any purpose, but the government set out in a 'settlement letter' [18] to local authorities what it expected the funding to be used for, the underlying ...
In February 2024, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee released their third Financial Distress in Local Authorities report. [105] Among its recommendations was that the government should make £4 billion of funding available to councils for the 2024-2025 financial year to prevent more bankruptcies and cuts to local services. [106]