The way people who need a roof over their head are allocated housing in Carmarthenshire is to change. Council cabinet members have approved a new emergency allocations policy which will directly match individuals presenting as homeless or in greater need with available properties.
If it's not possible to allocate all properties in this way, the current system - whereby people on the housing register bid online for an available property via a home finder website - would continue. A report on the proposed emergency policy was presented to cabinet by Cllr Deryk Cundy, who chaired a task and finish scrutiny group to develop it.
Cllr Cundy said the current system "simply cannot keep up with the high volume of allocations needed", and was also confusing for people. "This leads to high levels of dissatisfaction and high levels of operational delays getting people in greater need housed," he said. The direct matching option, he said, was more effective.
