Homelessness guide

Contents

• Reporting homelessness
• Homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Our legal responsibilities and duties 
• Personalised housing plans
  

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Homeless or at risk of homelessness

Generally, homeless people are those who have nowhere to stay or will have nowhere to stay within the next 56 days. People also considered homeless might:

• have no accommodation in this country or anywhere in the world to occupy
• have the right to live in a property but cannot gain access
• live in movable accommodation, like a boat or a caravan, but with nowhere permanent to moor or park
• have accommodation but due to some exceptional circumstances it would be unreasonable to continue to occupy this
• live separately from someone with whom they would normally reside, because there is nowhere, they can live together
• have a home, but fear violence from someone