45.3. As stated within governments 'National Plan to End Homelessness' 2025 councils will be required as a condition of funding to publish and regularly update their homelessness strategy action plans.
Affordable Housing - Homes that are cheaper than the regular market rate, so people on low or moderate incomes can afford them. This includes:
Social Rented Housing: Housing owned by local councils or housing associations and let at low rents, often with priority given to people in housing need.
Affordable Rented Housing: Housing let by local councils or housing associations at rents up to a certain limit (usually no more than 80% of the local market rent).
Accommodation for Ex-Offenders (AFEO) – this is a government-funded scheme that helps people leave prison access private rented housing with support to prevent homelessness and reduce reoffending.
Asylum Dispersal - A government scheme where people seeking asylum are moved from one area to another in the UK, so that support and accommodation can be provided while their claim is being processed.
Care Leavers - a person aged 25 or under, who has been looked after by a Local council for at least 13 weeks since the age of 14; and who was looked after by the Local council at school leaving age or after that date