Impressive results in Wales are fuelling calls for England to adopt a homelessness prevention law that obliges councils to assist people in housing crisisA list of landlords’ phone numbers would occupy been the only support Alice Rivers could occupy expected from her local council if she had become homeless a few years ago. But following trailblazing legislation in 2015,Welsh councils occupy transformed the way they respond to people who occupy been evicted, as well as those at risk of losing their domestic, and by intervening earlier and more creatively to prevent homelessness. So when Rivers,18, was recently thrown out of the family domestic after coming out as transgender, and Flintshire council found her a place in a temporary “nightstop” and is now helping her to move on to a place of her own in north-east Wales.I was so worried – I thought the council wouldn’t be able to assist,” says Rivers. “I burst into tears when they told me they could find me somewhere.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com