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Short on time? Monday’s housing news in five minutes
A round-up of the top stories this morning from Inside Housing and elsewhere
Top story: London’s largest network of night shelters forced to turn away rough sleepers due to coronavirus
The largest network of emergency winter night shelters in London is calling on the government for guidance after it was forced to turn away a rough sleeper from its service due to coronavirus fears.
Glass Door, which provides shelter to around 170 homeless people per night in London, had to turn away an individual after it was brought to their attention that the person had recently spent time in northern Italy.
The shelter manager called NHS 111 and was advised that the individual should not share a sleeping space with others due to the risk. As a result, the person, who did not turn out to have the virus, spent the night at King’s Cross and Victoria stations
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Housing associations agree 600-home stock transfer
Two housing associations in the South of England have agreed a 613-home stock transfer deal.
LiveWest will offload the homes – spread across Dorset and Hampshire – to Radian Group.
The 37,000-home landlord said it picked Radian, which itself manages 32,000 homes, after a competitive tendering process and a six-week resident consultation concluded it was “best placed to deliver local services to residents”.
Lunchtime long read
Key people from the architects’ firm that led design work for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower continued to give evidence to the inquiry last week. Nathaniel Barker considers what we learned.
Quote of the day
“Seeing the chancellor talking explicitly about social housing and the responsibility of government to provide homes for homeless people and rough sleepers is, I hope, a sign that we’re headed in the right direction.”
Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, on the government's new Affordable Homes Programme
In the papers
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Mounting fears about coronavirus inevitably dominate all the headlines, amid the sobering warning from Public Health England that the virus could be with us for a year and see 7.9 million people hospitalised.
The BBC reports on calls for safe spaces for rough sleepers to self-isolate should they contract the virus.
And the care sector is braced for a tough few months ahead, with reports of an outbreak in a care home in North Lanarkshire.
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