The Draft Homelessness Strategy (2019-2024) has been developed to identify the key priorities and the actions required to deliver them by the Council and other key public and private stakeholders.

The Draft Strategy identifies measures to deliver the Council’s Corporate Objectives of ‘Services Focused on the Most Vulnerable People’, ‘Economic Growth and Development’ and ‘Safe Place to Live’. It complements the Trafford Housing Strategy 2018-2023, plays a key role in delivering the priorities set in the emerging Greater Manchester Housing Strategy and the requirements of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

That the Draft Homelessness Strategy 2019-2024 be approved for a 6 week period of consultation.

The Council has a statutory duty to produce a Homelessness Strategy. The current Homelessness Strategy (2015-18) expires in December 2018.

An option is not to adopt the Homelessness Strategy. The absence of an overarching Homelessness Strategy across Trafford would not provide the Council with the mechanism to tackle homelessness in the borough. In addition, it is a statutory requirement for each Local Authority to have a Strategy in place therefore the Council would be in breach of its statutory homelessness duty.

None.