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<p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has
to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation
is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation
is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place
families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households
do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary
accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management
Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more
strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two
years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative
reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s
homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier
to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties
on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their
areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to
all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I
will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p>
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