Housing and Sustainable Communities Sample Clauses

Housing and Sustainable Communities. The Government and the social partners endorse the important principles set out in the Housing Policy Framework: Building Sustainable Community which provides a vision of the kind of high quality, integrated sustainable communities that are worth building. The parties agree to work together toward the delivery of this vision over a ten-year period. They recognise that the achievement of sustainable communities will be greatly aided by the implementation of spatial policy frameworks such as the NSS, Regional Planning Guidelines and the development plan process. Planning for future housing must also take account of the needs of a modern, dynamic and multi-cultural society reflecting a diversity of housing needs. Chapter 2 sets out the key proposals aimed at: • Ensuring the provision of good quality social and affordable accommodation (including the provision of housing under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts) in sustainable communities reflecting its important role in improving the life opportunities of the more vulnerable and disadvantaged people within our society. A key aim of housing investment will be to ensure that the system of housing supports is flexible enough to deal with the changing circumstances of the individual and family throughout the lifecycle, while ensuring equitable treatment and interventions that maximise individual choice and personal autonomy. • Advancing particular actions to assist people with special housing needs. Actions relating to older people and people with a disability are specifically referred to in sections XX and YY respectively. Ensuring improved outcomes for all people with special housing needs will require greater inter-agency co-operation, so that a combined approach to the accommodation and care dimensions is taken. • In the case of homeless people, it is proposed to amalgamate and update the Government’s Integrated and Preventative Homeless Strategies taking on board the recommendations of the recent independent review of the strategies. The situation of homeless persons who are currently in long-term emergency accommodation is of particular concern. The revised strategies will have as an underlying objective the elimination of such homelessness by 20102. Particular emphasis will also be placed on improved co-ordination of service provision through the extension of joint agency approaches at local level to facilitate the development of a holistic response to the needs of homeless person. This will be ac...