Adjournment
Public housing
David HODGETT (Croydon) (19:00): (231) My adjournment tonight is for the Minister for Housing, and the action I seek is for the minister to fix the priority public housing waitlist so that my constituent in the following circumstances can be placed into priority stable housing, which she urgently requires. My constituent, a long-time resident of the Croydon area, has contacted me out of desperation. She fled domestic violence, and the support organisations were only able to assist her in the short term. Once away from the domestic violence, the system failed to help her get back on her feet, only adding her to the lengthy priority public housing waitlist as a single mother with a four-year-old child. With nowhere to go and homeless, she and her four-year-old child are living out of the car. She has been waiting on the priority public housing list for almost a year, with no end in sight. She is doing everything she can to better her life for her child but faces numerous additional challenges due to her being homeless. It is deeply concerning to hear that a single mother and her child have been forced into this situation, living in a car with no stability or roof over their heads. My constituent deserves to have stable housing to raise her child and have a place that they can call home.
Minister, I urge you to fix the priority public housing waitlist and help change the circumstances of my constituent by providing her with the priority stable housing which she urgently requires and deserves. I would be happy to provide further details of my constituent confidentially to you in order for you to provide this much-needed urgent assistance. I am pleased to say that I had a brief conversation with the minister prior to raising this matter on adjournment tonight. I would be pleased to provide my constituent’s details confidentially to the minister, who I know will do his best to try to assist in these circumstances.