Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Digartrefedd a Dyrannu Tai Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2026
Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Digartrefedd a Dyrannu Tai Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2026 (2026 c. 3)
- Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Act 2026 / Deddf Digartrefedd a Dyrannu Tai Cymdeithasol (Cymru) 2026 (2026 c. 3)
- PART 1 HOMELESSNESS
- Help to prevent homelessness
- 1 Meaning of “threatened with homelessness”
- 2 Help to prevent an applicant from becoming homeless
- Assessment of needs and plans for securing accommodation and support
- 3 Duty to assess and notice of outcome of assessment
- 4 Prevention, support and accommodation plans
- Reviews
- 5 Right to request a review
- Reform of duties to secure accommodation
- 6 Duty to secure accommodation for eligible homeless persons with a local connection to Wales
- 7 Circumstances in which the duty to secure accommodation for applicants comes to an end
- 8 Interim duty to secure accommodation for homeless applicants
- Abolishing entitlement by reference to priority needs and intentional homelessness
- 9 Abolition of differences in entitlement related to priority need
- 10 Abolition of differences in entitlement related to intentional homelessness
- Local connection referrals
- 11 Referral of cases to another local housing authority
- 12 Meaning of local connection
- 13 Exemption from referral to another local housing authority
- 14 Duties to applicants in referral cases
- 15 Cases referred from a local housing authority in England
- 16 Notice to applicants in referral cases
- Further homelessness prevention duties
- 17 Help to retain suitable accommodation secured in exercise of homelessness functions
- 18 Duty to contact certain applicants after duty in section 75 comes to an end
- Unacceptable behaviour that brings duties to an end
- 19 Further circumstances in which the duties to help applicants end
- Duty to ask and act
- 20 Duty of a specified person to ask and act
- 21 Duty to refer persons in England to a local housing authority in Wales
- Provision for vulnerable people
- 22 Duty to ensure young people leaving care have suitable accommodation
- 23 Protocol for handling cases involving care leavers etc.
- 24 Protocol for handling cases involving persons in particular need of support
- 25 Protection of property: prisoners
- 26 Duty to provide information, advice and assistance: detained persons
- 27 Definition of “abuse”
- Seeking the views of homeless persons
- 28 Duty to seek the views of homeless persons in exercise of homelessness functions
- Condition of accommodation
- 29 Suitability of accommodation
- 30 Reports on use and condition of interim accommodation
- Co-operation
- 31 Co-operation
- 32 Co-operation between social landlords and local housing authorities
- Viewing accommodation
- 33 Viewing accommodation
- PART 2 SOCIAL HOUSING ALLOCATION
- Ineligibility for allocation of social housing
- 34 Ineligibility for allocation of housing as a result of unacceptable behaviour
- Preference for persons in allocation schemes
- 35 No preference for persons who try to manipulate the housing system
- 36 Preference for young people leaving care
- Registers
- 37 Housing registers
- PART 3 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
- Miscellaneous
- 38 Guidance to local housing authorities on rent guarantees
- 39 Review of the operation and effect of changes made by this Act
- General
- 40 Interpretation
- 41 Minor and consequential provision
- 42 Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.
- 43 Coming into force
- 44 Progress reports on bringing the Act into force
- 45 Short title
- SCHEDULE MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISION
- Housing Act 1996 (c. 52)
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 4)
- Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 7)
- Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1)
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