Question follow-through · 127745
Housing Associations: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take legislative steps to create a duty on housing associations to house homeless households.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 15 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
15 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take legislative steps to create a duty on housing associations to house homeless households.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
As set out in the government’s National Plan to End Homelessness published on 11 December 2025, which can be found on gov.uk here, we expect social housing landlords to cooperate with councils in housing statutory homeless households and, where joint work...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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