A previous paper in this series examined the need for improving access to private renting for homeless single people in London, particularly people in hostels, and the current and potential programmes for achieving this (Randall, 2008). This paper looks in more detail at strategies in three London boroughs with large hostel populations for improving move-on opportunities to the private rented sector. It is hoped that lessons from these will prove useful to other authorities and service providers to this group of homeless people. The earlier paper outlined how the shortage of affordable housing in London creates a high level of demand for social housing. Many homeless single people are not in statutory priority need and have little realistic prospect of access to social housing. This means that hostels and supported housing projects for homeless single people have great difficulty in accessing move-on accommodation for their residents.
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