Bexley Housing Options Service

Description

The Housing Act 1996 and associated Code of Guidance says who should be helped and what type of help needs to be provided.

The Council does not have to give every homeless person a home but as a minimum it has to provide advice and assistance to enable people to find their own housing.

Types of housing we provide

Where we have a duty to provide housing we do this in a number of ways.

Some people we can help with permanent housing (usually supplied by a housing association) and others we help with temporary housing. Most of our temporary housing is self contained and is either supplied by housing associations or private landlords.

We also have ntwo good quality hostels within bexley which are run by a housing association. As a last resort we may have to use bed and breakfast but we will then try to move people to self contained housing as soon as we can.

Homelessness Review and Strategy

The Council has carried out a comprehensive review of homelessness in Bexley and produced a five - year strategy.

The strategy has an action plan which shows how the Council and its partners intend to improve the service to homeless people over the next few years. The cost of the action plan will now feed into the Council's budget process and a decision will be made early in 2004 on how much of the strategy can be implemented.

The strategy will be reviewed regularly as trends in homelessness in Bexley and the needs of homeless people change. The Council welcomes any comments that will help in this ongoing review.

Address

Housing Option Service, London Borough or Bexley, Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleyheath

Contact

Tel: 020 8294 6131

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