Case - R v. Brent LBC ex parte Awua [1996] AC 55
The conventional statutory obligation imputed to local authorities to house homeless families under the remit of the Homelessness Act 2002 in “settled accommodation” suffered a blow in 1995 when the House of Lords ruled temporary accommodation was sufficient obligation for local authorities to bear.
This case effectively means whilst a person is not homeless if all he occupies is unsettled accommodation, and while he may become homeless intentionally from unsettled accommodation, and while he will enjoy no rights to settled accommodation even if he has become homeless, he will still have to find settled accommodation before he can break a period of intentional homelessness.
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