Supported housing

This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on supported housing. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.

Standard Notes

DateDescription
07.12.2012Housing Benefit reform - supported housing
This paper explains the Government's proposals for the reform of Housing Benefit for residents in supported housing and includes a summary of early responses to the proposals.
26.04.2012Warden support in sheltered housing
This note considers the issue of the removal of resident wardens from sheltered housing and the move towards a model of "floating support".
31.03.2010Sources of social statistics: Housing
Sources of social statistics: Housing. By Rachael Harker. This note is intended as a guide to the key sources in housing statistics. It represents a self-help guide, providing a starting point for those interested in obtaining statistics for themselves.

Select Committee Reports

DateDescription
18.01.2010The Supporting People Programme.
Government response. Communities and Local Government report [Commons]
12.10.2009The Supporting People Programme.
Communities and Local Government Select Committee report [Commons]

Early Day Motions

DateDescription
25.05.2010SHELTERED HOUSING WARDENS
That this House notes with concern reductions in funding for Supporting People services; further notes that this is leading to the threat of a removal of warden-supported housing complexes; ...
18.11.2009SHELTERED HOUSING WARDENS
That this House notes with concern reductions in funding for Supporting People services;notes that this is leading to the threat of a removal of warden-supported housing complexes; ...
13.01.2009SHELTERED HOUSING WARDENS
That this House notes with concern reductions in funding for supporting people services; further notes that this is leading to the threat of a removal of warden-supported housing complexes; ...
11.12.2007HOMELESSNESS (No. 2)
That this House notes that next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Government's commitment to reduce by two-thirds the number of homeless people forced to sleep rough and the ...

Glossary

  • Research Papers (RP) - briefings produced by the House of Commons Library on Bills, topical issues and regular statistics
  • Standard Notes (SN) - shorter, topical briefings from the Commons Library
  • Early Day Motions (EDMs) - formal motions submitted by MPs in the House of Commons
  • POST Notes - short briefing notes produced by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
  • Lords Library Notes (LLN) - an occasional series of papers compiled by the House of Lords Library