AQW 657/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Communities
To ask the Minister for Communities what actions her Department is taking to address housing insecurity.
Asked by Stewart Dickson MLA on 21 January 2020
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 21 January 2020
- Answer due by
- 5 February 2020
- Answered
- 20 February 202030 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Department provides funding of up to £855,000 per year to Housing Rights to support members of the public and other housing and advice professionals regarding housing and homelessness issues, including a mortgage debt advice service, and to help bring about improvements in housing legislation, policy and practice.
The Housing Executive has measures in place to deal with a lack of stability of accommodation experienced by an individual or household as a result of issues relating to:
homelessness;
difficulty sustaining a tenancy/ accommodation (in either social or private sector);
affordability of housing;
housing quality; and
community safety and sustainability.
To address these issues the Housing Executive delivers variety of operational and strategic activities including:
Housing Solutions and Support;
The Supporting People programme;
Homelessness Strategy 2017-2022;
Customer Support & Tenancy Sustainment Strategy 2019- 22;
Community Safety Strategy (Working Together for Safer Communities); and
Financial Inclusion Strategy