Next Steps Accommodation News Today

The ten one-bedroom modular homes are for formerly homeless individuals and provides ‘move on’ accommodation

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...

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...

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) Never miss another story from Coventry and Warwickshire by subscribing to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPriva...

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide extra support to get homeless off streets in Newark and Sherwood  | Updated: 11:44, 29 December 2020 Extra support is to be made available for the homeless in Newark and Sherwood thanks to a government grant. The district council has secured £22,846 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to provide additional support and advice for homeless people and rough sleepers through the government’s Next S...

BBC News By Jonathan Blake and Brian Wheeler BBC News image captionTemporary accommodation is not always suitable for families The number of people in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest level in 14 years, says a new report by charity Shelter. It jumped by 6,000 in the first three months of the pandemic and now stands at 253,000, according to Shelters analysis of government data. Temporary accommodation offered by councils ranges from bed and breakfasts to self-contained flats....