Get Housed

The definitive guide on how to get your local council to house you. For those in housing need and advisers working in the fields of housing and homelessness. Written in an easy to understand and accessible srtyle, it begins with an easy overview of how homelessness works, what it requires a local council to look at and what duties they have. It then guides you through each of the tests a local council applies and how to pass each one. It takes you through all of the little used duties, powers, loopholes and tests which can be used to gain housing. Lynden Swift has worked for over a decaade in homelessness, from front-line assessments, s202 reviews, strategy and policy development and staff training. He has witnessed how individuals and organisations struggle to understand what duties a local authority have towards those in housing need and how to properly trigger those duties. With legal aid much less available and social housing more needed than ever, this book will ensure that you know exactly how to get housed.