Issue - meetings

To receive and note the Move-On and Rough-Sleepers housing strategies.

The Committee received the report on the Housing Strategies: Move-On Strategy 2010-15 and the Rough Sleepers Strategy 2010-12, introduced by Rosie Green, Housing Strategy and Partnerships Manager.  It was noted that the documents were sub-strategies of the Council’s larger Housing Strategy and would be reviewed annually.

In response to questions by Committee Members the following was noted:

A rough sleeper was anybody sleeping on the street, although some rough sleepers might sleep on friends’ sofas and those who chose to sleep on the streets were the more difficult to work with to get them off the streets.

The most recent official count, using national criteria, found 3 rough sleepers in Haringey compared to 10 last year but officers approximated that there may be between 25 and 30 rough sleepers in the Borough from time to time.  A high proportion of these were from Eastern European countries with which the Council attempted to facilitate reconnections, through a Government funded reconnection scheme. 

RESOLVED that the report be noted.