Section 1 requires the Housing Executive to formulate and publish a homelessness strategy every five years, requires the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Wellbeing and the Regional Health and Social Care Board to assist with the formulation of the strategy, and requires certain bodies to take account of the strategy in the exercise of their functions. This section also explains what is meant by a “homelessness strategy”.
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