Recommendation 9

MHCLG told us that it was actively looking at ways to incentivise and support local government to move more funding into preventive rather than reactive activity.13 We pressed MHCLG on how it might achieve this. It explained that local authorities have different strategies–for example, in terms of intervening in the housing market or working with other agencies. While MHCLG said it would not pre-empt Ministerial decisions to come, it did refer to its work to spread best practice on procuring temporary accommodation between local authorities and confirmed it would do more to consider and share different authorities’ strategies for preventing homelessness.14