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The Council is currently developing its new Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and is seeking to initially consult on the four key priority areas that have been identified following completion of a Strategic Homelessness Review that we are proposing for the new Strategy.
The consultation will run for 6 weeks from 23 June to midnight on 03 August 2025. We welcome your views on our key priorities and welcome your thoughts on how you think we can meet these priorities.
The findings from the consultation along with stakeholder and service user events will help us develop a draft Strategy to set out how we will deliver our housing and homelessness services in the future. It will cover the period from 2026 to 2031.
The four key priorities proposed for the Strategy are:
Preventing homelessness at the earliest opportunity through early intervention and support
Increasing access to private rented sector accommodation
Reducing the use of nightly paid forms of temporary accommodation
Alleviating and preventing rough sleeping and single homelessness, but where rough sleeping occurs, keeping this brief and non-reoccurring.
We would like to hear from as many stakeholders as possible who might benefit from the strategy. We would most like to hear from:
Residents at risk of homelessness, or with lived experience of homelessness.
Residents who need social housing
Organisations that work with residents experiencing or at risk of homelessness, on low incomes and living in social housing
Public services that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping
Commissioners and service leads within Kent Council County or Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board
Affordable and social housing suppliers, housing developers and builders
Town and parish councils
Local businesses that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping
Please refer to the Strategic Homelessness Review before responding to this consultation.
The Council is currently developing its new Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and is seeking to initially consult on the four key priority areas that have been identified following completion of a Strategic Homelessness Review that we are proposing for the new Strategy.
The consultation will run for 6 weeks from 23 June to midnight on 03 August 2025. We welcome your views on our key priorities and welcome your thoughts on how you think we can meet these priorities.
The findings from the consultation along with stakeholder and service user events will help us develop a draft Strategy to set out how we will deliver our housing and homelessness services in the future. It will cover the period from 2026 to 2031.
The four key priorities proposed for the Strategy are:
Preventing homelessness at the earliest opportunity through early intervention and support
Increasing access to private rented sector accommodation
Reducing the use of nightly paid forms of temporary accommodation
Alleviating and preventing rough sleeping and single homelessness, but where rough sleeping occurs, keeping this brief and non-reoccurring.
We would like to hear from as many stakeholders as possible who might benefit from the strategy. We would most like to hear from:
Residents at risk of homelessness, or with lived experience of homelessness.
Residents who need social housing
Organisations that work with residents experiencing or at risk of homelessness, on low incomes and living in social housing
Public services that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping
Commissioners and service leads within Kent Council County or Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board
Affordable and social housing suppliers, housing developers and builders
Town and parish councils
Local businesses that might be impacted by homelessness and rough sleeping
Please refer to the Strategic Homelessness Review before responding to this consultation.
