Norwich City Council awards £290,000 contract to help homeless
by DAN GRIMMER
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30 AM
A £290,000 contract to help Norwich City Council look after homeless people has been awarded to a city charity.
The ruling Labour cabinet at City Hall agreed at a meeting last night to award the contract for a rough sleeper outreach service to St Martin’s Housing Trust.
The contract will run for three years and will see the trust provide a contact, prevention and assessment service for homeless adults, helping them to get places in hostels wherever possible.
Victoria MacDonald, cabinet member for housing, said: “Regrettably, it’s organisations like St Martin’s Housing Trust which are having to pick up those in most desperate need, so for us to support them is great news.”
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the housing crisis can be laid firmly at the last labour goverments doorstep . This is a party who said that there was the worst housing crisis since ww2 when the tories left power under major with 2.5 million people on the social housing list . When labour left power under brown the social housing list was a staggering 5.2 million . The labour party also let in 3.2 million immigrants . . Put these last two figures together and you have your answer why we have a housing crisis in the uk today
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