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<p>We announced £100 million to deliver low cost ‘move on’ accommodation for people
leaving homelessness hostels and domestic abuse refuges and helping them move towards
independent living.</p><p>We are also engaging with the sector to help us shape the
detail of the local grant for short-term supported housing. This funding will be ring-fenced
so it can only be spent on short-term supported housing and we have committed to it
being in place for the long term.</p><p>The short-term accommodation grant will remove
rental costs for the tenants at a particularly vulnerable point in their lives, allowing
them to seek work safe in the knowledge that their housing costs will be met. It will
also help people who can, to move-on with greater choice about where they go without
carrying a legacy of rent arrears and debt.</p><p>This Government have made a commitment
to release more of its surplus land for housing during the current Parliament.</p><p>The
Public Land for Housing annual report published in February 2017 shows that by September
2016 public sector land with capacity for 13,817 homes had been sold.</p><p> </p><p>
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