To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support veterans with complex needs to find supported housing.
Answered on
25 February 2022
In framing their allocation scheme, local housing authorities must ensure that reasonable preference is given to people who need to move on medical or welfare grounds, including people with complex needs such as learning disabilities, as well as those with a physical disability.
In line with the Armed Forces Covenant, we changed the law in 2012 so that certain members of the armed forces community with urgent housing needs are always given additional preference (high priority) for social housing. Urgent housing need can include those who need to move because of a life threatening illness or sudden disability, families in severe overcrowding which poses a serious health hazard, and those who are homeless and require urgent re-housing as a result of violence or threats of violence.