LGA on round two Local Authority Housing Fund

“We are pleased that the Government is continuing to work with the LGA and councils on funding to help families move to their own homes, reduce homelessness risks and help local partners acquire more housing."


Commenting on £250 million of funding for councils as part of the Local Authority Housing Fund to reduce the risk of homelessness for new arrivals to the UK, Cllr James Jamieson, Chairman of the Local Government Association said:



“We are pleased that the Government is continuing to work with the LGA and councils on funding to help families move to their own homes, reduce homelessness risks and help local partners acquire more housing.



“It is helpful the Government is continuing to respond in a more joined up way to issues across all programmes for new arrivals. We look forward to continue working with them to identify and implement further solutions to growing accommodation challenges. The flexibility to open these up new or repurposed homes to more general use in the long term will also assist with housing challenges across local communities.

“There continues to be a crisis across the refugee and asylum system, compounded by a housing crisis and the rapidly-approaching deadline for Afghan families to move on from hotels by the end of the summer. Councils have been at the sharp end of the rise in the number of people presenting as homeless and need urgent solutions to pressing housing needs in the short and the long term across all the schemes that welcome new arrivals to the UK."