Re: [Diggers350] Homelessness duty 'would cost councils £44m'

[greenwomble]

We need homing experts not housing experts. What's the difference? In a
hierarchal pay out economy, houses costs money, make money for sellers,
homes do not! Homes can be easily provided for people in need by the gift
economy.
People are houseless, they're not home less, they're prevented from getting
homes by planners and local govt who need them to buy housing rented or
outright. The economic hierarchy economy through its media have programmed
a population to think of houses only, as homes.
Frank digger.
On 12 May 2016 00:47, "Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk [Diggers350]" <
Diggers350-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Homelessness duty 'would cost councils £44m'
> 10 May 2016 0:01 am | By Heather Spurr
> http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=172583#172583
> Introducing a new homelessness prevention duty
> would initially cost English councils £44m a year in total, a report has
> found.
> A panel of housing experts, organised by Crisis,
> last month officially published its
> recommendations calling on ministers to introduce
> new duties on councils to prevent people becoming homeless.
> Inside Housing revealed in January that the
> Department for Communities and Local Government
> (DCLG) is considering changing the law to bring
> in the new duty, which has already been implemented in Wales.
> Today’s provisional research findings, undertaken
> by academics and published by Crisis, found that
> local authorities would spend in total £43.9m a
> year on homelessness prevention under the new scheme.
> However, it found that these extra costs would
> eventually be offset by £46.8m a year due to
> fewer full homelessness duty cases, because people would get help quicker.
> The DCLG has not confirmed whether or not it
> would match new legislation with extra money for councils.
> Last year, the Welsh Government imposed a duty on
> councils to prevent homelessness within 56 days, backed with £4.9m for
> 2015/16.
> English councils’ responses to the expert panel’s
> conclusions have been mixed, with many warning
> that they will need additional investment and
> housing in order to implement the recommendations.
> Labour mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales said last
> month: “If you say somebody’s homeless and I have
> to house them, I have to have a place to house them. I can’t magic things
> up.”
> The DCLG has been contacted for comment.
>
> http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/policy/health-and-care/homelessness/homelessness-duty-would-cost-councils-44m/7015149.article
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