Two local government authorities, a credit union and homeless prevention loans

This article reviews Lee and Carlisle’s (2023) work that addresses how two local government authorities and a credit union collaborated to provide and manage homeless prevention loans to protect social housing tenants from eviction from their homes. The article locates the need for the loans in the historical context of UK governments’ changes to housing provisions and why the local government authorities found it necessary to provide grants to arrange the loans. The success of the loans and the way in which the loans are managed by the credit union is also reported.