AQW 5259/16-21

Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 13/10/2016
Answered On Date: 26/10/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of occasions the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has awarded points to applicants on the basis of being intimidated, in each of the last five years.

Answer:

The Housing Executive has provided details of the number of homeless presenters, who gave the reason for presentation as intimidation, by category for the last five years as shown in the tables below. The tables also provide the number of presenters accepted as full duty applicants.

2011/12
Reason for Homelessness	Presenters	Accepted as Full Duty Applicants
Intimidation-Anti-social behaviour	44	30
Intimidation-Disability	2	2
Intimidation-Paramilitary	326	213
Intimidation-Racial	29	18
Intimidation-Sectarian	52	34
Intimidation-Sexual Orientation	9	6
Total	462	303


2012/13
Reason for Homelessness	Presenters	Accepted as Full Duty Applicants
Intimidation-Anti-social behaviour	75	46
Intimidation-Disability	1	0
Intimidation-Paramilitary	387	292
Intimidation-Racial	36	26
Intimidation-Sectarian	66	48
Intimidation-Sexual Orientation	21	15
Total	586	427

2013/14
Reason for Homelessness	Presenters	Accepted as Full Duty applicants
Intimidation-Anti-social behaviour	77	37
Intimidation-Paramilitary	472	293
Intimidation-Racial	39	18
Intimidation-Sectarian	65	32
Intimidation-Sexual Orientation	14	10
Intimidation-Disability	1	1
Total	668	391

2014/15
Reason for Homelessness	Presenters	Accepted as Full Duty Applicants
Intimidation-Anti-social behaviour	62	30
Intimidation-Paramilitary	433	312
Intimidation-Racial	47	33
Intimidation-Sectarian	35	19
Intimidation-Sexual Orientation	13	11
Total	590	405

2015/16
Reason for Homelessness	Presenters	Accepted as Full Duty Applicants
Intimidation-Anti-social behaviour	77	48
Intimidation-Disability	1	1
Intimidation-Paramilitary	433	325
Intimidation-Racial	23	14
Intimidation-Sectarian	39	21
Intimidation-Sexual Orientation	9	5
Total	582	414

To Note, A Full Duty Applicant is a person to whom the Housing Executive owes a duty under the Homelessness legislation, Article 10(2) of the Housing (NI) Order, 1988 to “secure that accommodation becomes available for his /her occupation”.