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Get help and advice from your local council if you're homeless or about to lose your home.
Housing options and support for veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
Guidance for organisations that provide housing or homelessness services to the armed forces community
Your council must help if you’re legally homeless or will become homeless within 8 weeks. Help may include advice, emergency housing or longer-term housing.
Information and guidance for local authorities compiling the P1E quarterly data returns on homelessness.
When and how council statutory homelessness duties apply within the scheme.
Operating principles for commissioners and providers of night shelters for people experiencing rough sleeping.
If you're under 18, you cannot usually rent your own home, but you'll be on the priority list for council housing - your rights and what happens if you want to leave home
This guidance explains the rights of European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss citizens to access social housing and homelessness assistance in England.
Guidance on homelessness for local authorities.
This collection includes the latest statistics and management information on homelessness and rough sleeping in England.
Guidance on how to determine whether a person is homeless or threatened with homelessness according to legislation.
Guidance on housing authority duties to provide free advice and information about homelessness and the prevention of homelessness, and to ensure they design advice to meet the needs of particular vulnerable groups.
Guidance on housing authority duties to carry out a homelessness review and publish a homelessness strategy.
More than 160 businesses have registered their interest in joining the Government’s drive to help prevent and end homelessness, starting in the workplace.
A summary of the homelessness legislation and the duties, powers and obligations on housing authorities and others towards people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.
The latest data tables on homelessness.
A new grant to support the essential work of the voluntary and community sector to deliver a sustained reduction in homelessness and rough sleeping.
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