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Homelessness Strategy

Meeting: 03/05/2022 - Executive (Item 26)

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Minutes:

The Executive Member for Homes and Communities presented the report regarding the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2022-2027 and noted the amendments resulting from consultation. He clarified that the Strategy would go to Full Council for approval and adoption.

 

In response to a discussion regarding the shortfall in the local housing allowance it was agreed that the Leader and the Managing Director would write to local MP’s to ask them to lobby central government in relation to the need for an uplift to the local housing allowance to ensure that it adequately covered markets rents. This would also be copied to the Local Government Association.

 

RECOMMENDED to Full Council that it approves and adopts the Teignbridge Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2022-2027, noting the feedback that has been provided via our 5 consultation exercises, which had enabled the Council to refine and improve the final version of the strategy which would be published in July of 2022. 

 

The vote was unanimous.