Birmingham Social Housing

Housing Needs and Homelessness

Strategic Priorities

  • Contribute to Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Strategy
  • Preventing homelessness and tackling housing need

Working Group

  • Contribute to Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Strategy
  • Preventing homelessness and tackling housing need
  • City Housing Forum- homelessness scope
Please see the BSHP Calendar for dates and times of meetings

Progress Update

The group is finalising arrangements to roll out pre-homelessness assessments of RP tenants. The proposed format from BCC has been agreed and the group are waiting for BCC to agree a commencement date. This will help to prevent homelessness and help to inform the reasons driving customers to present as homeless. It will align with the Housing Protocol in place to facilities transfers for any customers at risk from harm.

Working alongside WMBUS a practical tool is being developed to help facilitate an increased volume of mutual exchanges. The objective is to increase mobility outside of the housing register. This is to be discussed in more detail and the next meeting.

Executive leads:

David Taylor, Head of Lettings and Tenancy Standards, Midland Heart
0845 850 1020, David.taylor@midlandheart.org.uk

Sue Murray, Director of Housing, Bromford Housing Group
0121 771 2220, sue.murray@bromford.co.uk

Jean Templeton,Cheif Executive, St Basils
07771 802 040, jean.templeton@stbasils.org.uk