World Homelessness Day – Council welcomes £3m funding increase to mission to finish homelessness

Manchester City Council has hailed a £3 million World Homelessness Day funding increase.

The substantial further funding introduced by the Government at present, Friday 10 October, will assist stop homelessness and assist individuals who have slept tough to construct new lives away from the streets. 

It represents a top-up to the Council’s current homelessness funding for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 in recognition of the persevering with pressures Manchester and different areas are below. 

The Council has already begun to set out plans for a way the additional cash will probably be spent to make sure it has the utmost impression.  

Around £550,000 of will probably be awarded by the Council as grants to organisations within the metropolis’s Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector that are supporting people who find themselves homeless or liable to homelessness. Details of those allocations will probably be introduced quickly. 

Other funding will probably be used to bolster help to assist folks in non permanent lodging transfer on to settled houses. 

The funding may also be used to adapt non permanent lodging for folks with bodily disabilities and different wants, assembly a rising demand for such housing. 

180 care leavers who would in any other case be liable to homelessness will probably be housed in shared rented houses.  

And a part of the funding will probably be used to assist useful resource work to make sure that social housing within the metropolis is offered to those that want it most, together with a serious crackdown on tenancy fraud, again efforts to deliver empty houses again into use and assist folks whose current social housing is just too massive for his or her must ‘right size’, releasing up bigger houses for households. 

Council Leader Cllr Bev Craig stated:

“Tackling the homelessness disaster is considered one of Manchester’s greatest priorities and – working with our group companions throughout the town – we’re turning the tide.  

“We welcome at present’s further funding increase from Government which, nationally, provides an additional £84 million to the billion that was dedicated earlier within the yr.  

“In Manchester, we’re working tirelessly to forestall folks from turning into homeless within the first place by way of early assist, and to make sure anybody who does develop into homeless will get the help they should construct new lives in settled houses. It’s good to see that we’re bucking the nationwide development by decreasing the variety of households in non permanent lodging and successfully eradicating the usage of B&Bs for households.  

“An enormous a part of our efforts are focussed on constructing a report variety of council, social and genuinely inexpensive houses for Manchester folks. We are additionally decided to make the most effective use we are able to of the 70,000 council and social houses we have already got.  

“Homelessness remains a big challenge and one we cannot tackle on our own. On World Homelessness Day we pay tribute to the amazing charity and voluntary groups in our city who share our mission to end avoidable homelessness in Manchester.”