Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Housing
Decision No: D100019MEM
Date: 22nd February 2010
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Qualifying offers - Discharge of Homelessness Duty
Minutes
Further to Decision No. D090060MEM the report proposed an extension to the current Rent Deposit Scheme to incorporate the use of a 'qualifying offer' in defined circumstances as an effective method of discharging the Council's duty in respect of homeless households.
Following consideration by the Strategic Housing Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Housing resolved that:
1) the extension of the Rent Deposit Bond Scheme to include qualifying offers in the defined circumstances described in the report be endorsed; and
2) expenditure from within the existing budget for the Rent Deposit Bond Scheme to the value outlined in paragraph 1.5.2 of the report be approved.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Strategic Housing Advisory Board of 22 February 2010.
Signed J Anderson (Cabinet Member for Housing)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 26 February 2010
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.