Homelessness and threatened with homelessness in Wales

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Practice notes

Homelessness and threatened with homelessness in Wales

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Practice notes
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Homelessness law in Wales is governed by Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (H(W)A 2014), legislation emanating from the Welsh Parliament which came into force on 27 April 2015.

H(W)A 2014, s 62(1) imposes a duty on a local housing authority (LHA) (defined in H(W)A 2014, s 99 as the county council of a county or county borough in Wales) to carry out an assessment of a person’s case under H(W)A 2014, Pt 2 if certain conditions are met. One such condition is that it appears to the authority that the person may be ‘homeless or threatened with homelessness’, see H(W)A 2014, s 66.

The terms ‘homeless’ and ‘threatened with homelessness’ are defined in H(W)A 2014, s 55. Those terms also feature in section 175 of the Housing Act 1996 (HA 1996) which applies to homelessness in England and which—until the coming into force of H(W)A 2014—also applied in Wales. There is, therefore, a considerable amount of case law on the meaning of the terms in HA 1996, s 175 (and related

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