ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the degree to which community care needs overlap with housing need. It discusses homelessness acceptances but exclude those that have, in principle, been covered by the household survey. Housing need is one dimension of human problems. There are a number of other topics which overlap it, or which are closely related, which will be analysed: relationship with income and poverty, relationship with homelessness and relationship with community care needs problems. Poverty is thus viewed as the result of individual conditions such as old age, unemployment, family break-up, chronic sickness, and so on. Poverty, in other words, cannot be used to infer housing need. An element of statutory homelessness data is explicitly included in the Fordham Research definition, and the rest is included implicitly. In the definition of housing need, we examine homelessness acceptances but exclude those that have, in principle, been covered by the household survey.
