Recommendation 12

Statutory services should be required to play a stronger role in tackling homelessness. We welcome the focus in the National Plan to End Homelessness on switching from crisis response to prevention of homelessness and the proposed “duty to collaborate” to help achieve that ambition. The lack of an explicit link between the proposed “duty to collaborate” and tackling racial disparities in homelessness risk is, however, a missed opportunity that we urge the government to address. (Conclusion, Paragraph 73)