Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of Urban Environment – To be introduced by the Executive Member for Housing): To seek to provide information on the priority areas for action in relation to homelessness for 2007/08 and to provide information on how it is intended to prepare for the development of a new Homelessness Strategy for 2008-12.

We were pleased to note the reduction in the number of households living in temporary accommodation and we asked that this number be reported to Executive Members on a quarterly basis.

In response to about the availability of figures in relation to the operation of the Choice Based letting scheme we were advised that the scheme had proved to be very popular and that it was intended to include further details in a future report. With regard to the question in relation to the accumulation of points by tenants we asked that officers write to all Members of the Executive with a fuller explanation of how the points scheme operated.

We also asked a further report on the Homelessness Strategy be submitted to us in June including on the question of support provided to people for whom English was not their first language.

RESOLVED:

1. That the approach to undertaking the homelessness review and developing a new strategy as outlined in the interleaved report be endorsed.

2. That the priority actions for 2007/08 and the continued need to develop the Action Plan in the light of consultation with the Team at the Department of Communities and Local Government be noted.