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How many Direct offers of Northampton Borough Council accommodation (managed by Northampton Partnership Homes) were made in total?
Of the total what was the reason(s) and the number for each see (a) to (g)
PERIOD of interest 1st April 2020 and 31st December 2020
Please see figures in the table below. There are two additional categories which are Hospital Discharge x 2 and Older Persons Strategy Move x 5. Please also note that D & F are the same category, all threat to life cases have to be verified and supported by the Police, so we have amalgamated the two.
All direct offers of accommodation will be authorised by the relevant team leader or service manager within the Rehousing Team or the Housing Advice and Options team.
a) situations where urgent rehousing is required due to the applicant spending an excessive amount of time in temporary accommodation provided by Northampton Borough Council, or an existing property being uninhabitable, or where there are serious health and safety or personal protection issues to be addressed to discharge a statutory homelessness duty
111
b) other urgent housing need situations where in the circumstances it would not be reasonable to wait for the choice-based lettings process to take place including landlord transfer requests;
73
(c) cases where the tenant has died and there is no right of succession where the Authority has agreed to rehouse the applicant in an alternative property;
1
d) threat to life in the area in which the applicant currently resides;
20
(e) emergency cases where an applicant’s home has been damaged by fire, flood or other disaster, they may be provided with other accommodation if it is not possible to repair the existing home;
0
(f) households who on Police advice must be moved immediately due to serious threats to one or more members of the household;
0 (Included in answer D)
g) to facilitate a three way (or greater) mutual exchange. Mutual exchanges are not an allocation, but where the Authority is satisfied that to do so would make best use of its housing stock and support the needs of the tenants involved, rather than a direct swap (assignment) taking place, the Council may make available a property for three-way exchange
0