Issue - meetings

The Council continues to incur significant financial outlay on temporary accommodation costs to meet its homelessness obligations under the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, and the level of expenditure is set to significantly exceed the budget set for 2026/27. This report sets out the actions taken to minimise homelessness expenditure and identifies the funding which will be utilised to cover the additional expenditure for 2026/27.

The Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Note the priority actions points which have been taken to manage homelessness over the past 6 months.

(2)          Note the use of the Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Domestic Abuse Grant, the recently announced Rough Sleeper Programme funding and a 4% inflationary uplift in the nightly paid budget, to meet the increase in expenditure, during 2026/27, to enable the Council to meet its duties under the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.