Temporary Accommodation: Greater Manchester

(asked on 6th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will meet with local authority leaders in Manchester to discuss the proportion of people who have been newly housed in temporary accommodation under the emergency housing measures in response to covid-19 who have left or been evicted from that accommodation; and if he will make an assessment of the reasons for those evictions.


Answered by
Luke Hall Portrait
Luke Hall
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 15th May 2020

Over 90 per cent of those on the streets?at the beginning of the crisis?known to local authorities have now been made offers of safe accommodation, ensuring some of the most vulnerable in society are protected from the pandemic. This includes those rough sleeping or who have been living in accommodation with communal sleeping spaces such as night shelters.

On 2 May, Dame Louise Casey was appointed to spearhead a Taskforce to lead the next phase of the Government’s response for rough sleepers during this pandemic. The Taskforce will work hand-in-hand with councils across the country on plans to ensure rough sleepers can move into long-term, safe accommodation once the immediate crisis is over – ensuring as few people as possible return to life on the streets. The taskforce will also ensure the thousands of rough sleepers now in accommodation continue to receive the physical and mental health support they need over the coming weeks while they continue to self-isolate from the virus.

Ministers have regular teleconferences to discuss emerging issues with all local authorities, and Ministers have spoken regularly to the Mayor of Greater Manchester throughout the pandemic.

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