Housing Strategies
Southend-on-Sea City Council’s Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2018 - 2028 sets out the priorities and commitments we are making to address local housing need.
Throughout the life of the strategy, we aim to:
- Prioritise the supply of safe, locally affordable homes.
- Ensure that regeneration and growth creates inclusive, healthy places to live and thrive.
- Encourage good quality housing design, management and maintenance.
- Support people to live independently in their own homes and avoid homelessness.
- Make any instance of homelessness brief and non-recurrent.
Allocations Policy
Our Allocations Policy sets out how we allocate our limited supply of social housing. A summary guide on how we allocate social housing can be found at www.Southend-on-the-move.org.uk
Discharging Homelessness Duty Policy
The discharging homelessness duty policy sets out how we will make use of the private rented sector to help meet our homelessness duties.