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PLANS to turn a detached home in a Brierley Hill street into a HMO to help rough sleepers get back on their feet have been approved.

PLANS by Dudley Council to turn a detached home in Brierley Hill into a HMO to help rough sleepers get back on their feet have been slammed by…

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 Steps Accommodation Programme. Porchlight say rough sleeping hasn't changed since they set up 45 year...

A rough sleeper in Oxford OXFORD's city council is committing £9.1m of public money to tackling homelessness in its budget for next year, The budget, which is currently in a draft form that needs to be approved, includes plans to spend extra funding from the Government, bringing its original plans to spend £8.2m on homelessness prevention up by almost a further million. The council has also highlighted how it has spent extra money on tackling rough sleeping in the current year due to a national programme called Everyone In which has aimed to temporarily house as many homeless people a...

MORE than £9 million has been budgeted to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping in Oxford next year. Oxford City Council announced it will budget £9.1 million, an increase on the £6.3 million spent in 2019-20. As the country entered the first lockdown in March, the Government issued an ‘everyone in’ direction for councils to provide emergency housing for rough sleepers and vulnerable homeless people to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Short-term funding to provide this came from the Next Steps Accommodation Programme (NSAP). This funding currently ends next March, however...