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Audit Committee calls for more to be done to provide affordable housing of good standard for homeless
Hidden homelessness and a lack of affordable housing are serious concerns, according to a recently published report from The National Assembly’s Audit Committee on the Welsh Assembly Government’s national homelessness strategy. The report finds that this strategy has had some success, but needs to do more since the real numbers of homeless people are much higher than statistics suggest.
Not everyone who is homeless asks their local council for help and, thus, will not show up on their statistics, the auditors point out.
The committee recommends that the Assembly Government issue clear guidance on how homelessness legislation should be interpreted. It also believes that some temporary housing occupied by homeless people may not be of a high enough standard and recommends an inspection of all such properties.
Janet Davies, chair of the Audit Committee, believes it is positive that more use should be made of social housing and the private sector to house homeless people. The problem, she said, is that it puts pressure on the availability of social housing for those who need a secure home and reduces the amount of accommodation for people not considered to be statutorily homeless. And this, in turn, increases the risk that more families may become homeless in the future.
For further information visit the public information section on the National Assembly for Wales’s website at: www.publicinformation.wales.gov.uk
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