by passing them onto Private Landlords?

Many people who approach Councils for help when they become homeless are vulnerable – single mothers with children, people with health issues or money problems. They need the security of a Council or Housing Association Tenancy to make sure they do not end uip in the same position again,

However, most local Council are now using ther "private sector" (ie money-grabbing Landlords and Buy-To-Letters) to house their homelessness cases as they "do not have enough housing stock of their own". For one thing, most councils have housing stock left unoccupied which could be used

And for another thing, private tenancies are insecure. The Landlord demands a bond and rent in advance and can chuck you out whenever he likes. These vulnerable people will most likely just end up homeless again when they default on the (unaffordable) rent or the Landlord wants his house back to sell etc.

Why is this poor excuse for a Government not addressing this?
Johan and the Saint,

OK – story – my partner and I have worked and paid taxes all our lives but when I became ill with a pregnancy related illness and had to stop work, we fell behind with the mortgage and were threatened with repossession (our insurance didn’t cover us as my illness was pregnancy related) .

We were not "failing in our duty to help ourselves", we’d been helping ourselves for years, we just needed a hand through the hard time we were going through, and we’ve paid enough tax over the years to be able to ask for it!

Did they help? Did they BOLLOX!!

Luckily my mother in law gave us the money to clear our arrears because otherwise my baby’s first home would have been a grotty homeless shelter, and we are hardworking TAXPAYERS!!!