Cumberland Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy

This strategy sets out the vision and priorities to shape how the council responds to homelessness over the next five years. It has been designed to work with other council key strategy documents that focus on improving health and wellbeing and addressing inequalities.

The Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy identifies the following five strategic priority objectives, which are set within the fundamental principles of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

The key priorities are:

1. Prioritise early intervention and prevention of homelessness.
2. Work to end rough sleeping.
3. Develop and improve access to a suitable range of affordable settled, supported and temporary accommodation solutions.
4. Deliver an efficient, effective and accessible homelessness prevention and housing support service tailored to meet diverse needs.
5. Tackle systematic housing insecurity.

The Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy evidences the need for supported housing for vulnerable client groups. One of the priorities of this Housing Strategy outlines how we will work towards providing a sufficient supply of affordable general needs housing and a range of specialist supported housing pathways to allow the Council to discharge its statutory duties around homelessness prevention and relief.

Details of how the Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeper Strategy meets the strategic aims of Cumberland Council are in that strategy. The strategy is available at The Homeless Prevention and Rough Sleeper Strategy.