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homeless person
Under the Housing Act 1996, a person who has no living accommodation that he is entitled to occupy, or is unlawfully excluded from his own living accommodation, or whose accommodation is mobile and cannot be placed in a location where he is permitted to reside in it. Certain homeless people (e.g. the elderly or infirm or those with dependent children) have a statutory right to permanent local-authority accommodation or, if they became homeless intentionally, to temporary accommodation. The Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 amends section 179 of the 1966 Act to provide that each local housing authority in England must provide (or secure the provision of) a service, available free of charge to any person in the authority’s district, so as to help prevent people becoming homeless in the first place. |