How can housing associations or councils ensure a strategic approach to long-term, sustained solutions?

London Local Government thinks that we need to take a strategic long-term approach to solving the temporary accommodation crisis in the capital and the rest of the country and are committed to working with the Government on developing their cross-departmental homelessness strategy to do so but while a long-term vision is necessary there is also a current crisis in temporary accommodation which requires urgent action to address in the here and now. So the way forward is about combining the immediate steps that are necessary while looking to the future in order to address this in London we've launched the London Ending Homelessness Accelerator which is a joint project between London Councils and the Greater London Authority that is aiming to take a city-wide whole systems approach to homelessness in London that does just that providing the necessary resources and action to address the current crisis but also planning to an ambitious long-term future of ending homelessness in order to meet this the scope and scale of this ambition we need a number of interventions from Government including the necessary resources powers and funding for local authorities to take ambitious action to end homelessness.