A HOUSING project that provides homeless people with ‘complex needs’ with a roof to build a new life is set to be injected with £90,000.

The Welsh Government’s housing and regeneration minister Rebecca Evans has unveiled the funding for Housing First, a pilot project run by Denbighshire and Conwy county councils.

The project involves moving people with complex needs into permanent housing and offering them one to one support to address their problems and to be able to sustain a tenancy themselves.

Rebecca Evans said: “Housing First services are targeted at those who are likely to have severe mental illness, poor physical health and lack social support.

“It works on the basis that people are more successful in moving forward with their lives if they are housed first and have choice and control over their lives.

“The cost to the public purse of not housing someone far outweighs the cost of supporting them into accommodation. We aim to support the most vulnerable people in Wales, and Housing First is a sound investment that can save money, as well as lives in the long term.

“I look forward to the results in Denbighshire and seeing people supported into homes.”

Ann Jones, AM for North Wales, welcomed the new funding. She said: “I welcome this investment in assisting homeless people in Denbighshire, especially as it will target those with the most complex needs.

“I am seeing more and more people in my surgeries who are homeless, facing homelessness or are in poor and inadequate housing. This scheme will allow those most vulnerable to rebuild their lives.”