PART 7Housing

CHAPTER 2Social housing: tenure reform

Tenancy strategies

153Relationship between schemes and strategies

In section 3 of the Homelessness Act 2002 (homelessness strategy) after subsection (7) insert—

“(7A)

In formulating or modifying a homelessness strategy, a local housing authority in England shall have regard to—

(a)

its current allocation scheme under section 166A of the Housing Act 1996,

(b)

its current tenancy strategy under section 150 of the Localism Act 2011, and

(c)

in the case of an authority that is a London borough council, the current London housing strategy.”