Earlier this year, Greenwich Council announced that it had achieved a huge reduction in the number of homeless people it was responsible for being temporarily accommodated in bed and breakfast hotels, saving a lot of money in the process.
The cost of temporary accommodation has become a huge drain on the already strained resources of many London boroughs, as I have reported in depth. So how did Greenwich alleviate that pressure?
Council leader Anthony Okereke (pictures) and Shaun Flook, Greenwich’s assistant director, housing needs and tenancy, explained to Leanne Tritton and how they got all of the relevant Town Hall departments working together to identify homes available, establish entitlements to them and generally do whatever they could to find them somewhere better.
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