AQW 17694/17-22

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 21/04/2021
Answered On Date: 12/05/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities when are the COVID-19 accommodation arrangements due to end; and how many of those individuals or families have been provided with future accommodation when temporary accommodation arrangements end.

Answer:

The Housing Executive has statutory responsibility for responding to Homelessness.

The Housing Executive’s Reset Plan outlining its homelessness response to Covid-19, including a summary of various stages up to March 2022 can be accessed at: https://www.nihe.gov.uk/Documents/Homelessness/ homelessness-reset-plan-the-way-home

With regard to the future provision of permanent accommodation for those currently in Temporary Accommodation, the Housing Executive will continue to make offers to families and individuals as accommodation becomes available. During the 2020/21 financial year a total of 1,374 households were moved from Temporary Accommodation to permanent social housing and efforts to ensure that offers of appropriate accommodation are made will continue.