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Home> Our Work> Homelessness> Working together to end homelessness

Working together to end homelessness

We are working with other stakeholders, to bring together housing associations and local authorities to tackle homelessness in partnership.

We have also developed the Commitment to Refer, a voluntary commitment by housing associations to refer households at risk of homelessness to their local authority, reflecting the Duty to Refer in the Homelessness Reduction Act. We’d like to strengthen this as well as find other opportunities for better partnership working and relationship building.

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Supporting Homes for Cathy

Homes for Cathy are a group of housing associations that came together in 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of Cathy Come Home and to highlight the continuing needs of homeless people.

Homes for Cathy have developed a series of commitments to help housing associations contribute to ending homelessness.

We support Homes for Cathy and the group is represented on our Homelessness Steering Group.

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Read the Homes for Cathy commitments

APPG for Ending Homelessness

The NHF sits on the APPG for Ending Homelessness. In 2020-21, the APPG looked at Housing First. In previous years, it has looked at domestic abuse as a cause of homelessness, migrant homelessness, youth homelessness and rapid rehousing models.

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Our homelessness steering group

Our members shape our work on homelessness through the homelessness steering group.

  
  

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Viktorija Kiselyte