Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Report requesting Cabinet to agree that Merton
becomes a member of Capital Letters, a pan-London private sector
housing procurement service (supported by MHCLG) which should
increase the supply of homes available to the council so as to
discharge its statutory housing duties
RESOLVED:
(a) That Cabinet approved the decision to become a member of Capital Letters (London) Ltd.
(b) That Cabinet noted that the main reason for joining Capital Letters is to increase housing supply for vulnerable homeless households, given the acute
shortage of social housing nominations.
Report author: Steve Langley
Publication date: 24/06/2021
Date of decision: 22/06/2021
Decided at meeting: 22/06/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 30/06/2021
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