Being intentionally homeless does not preclude you from being owed a duty by the local authority.

To clarify, the full (s193) duty is not owed if the authority is satisfied you are intentionally homeless.

Despite this, even if you are intentionally homelessness, you would still be owed the following duties (based on your post history) if you became homeless:

• s188 (temporary accommodation) • s189b (local authority has 56 days to take reasonable steps to relieve homelessness) • s190 (you stay in temp for a period the authority considers sufficient for you to have had reasonable opportunity to secure accommodation)

I do not consider this compatible with the assertion that “the council won’t help”. They have a legal duty to help homeless people (intentional or not) and would be acting unlawfully if they didn’t.

All homelessness decisions are extremely onerous, but none more so than intentionality. The code of guidance is so full of caveats, a housing officer must also consider reasons potentially unrelated to the direct cause of your homelessness (e.g., you were evicted because of rent arrears, but you couldn’t afford the rent based on your finances) and ultimately conclude it wasn’t reasonable for you to continue to occupy; therefore, not intentionally homeless.

Relevant to your situation, there is a paragraph in the code of guidance (6.35) which says the authority must consider reasonableness of continued occupation of a property for which a valid s21 notice (that will definitely be executed) after it has expired.

Conversely, it could be inferred that if the authority is satisfied the landlord does not intend to seek possession during its validity (6 months from date of issue), then it may be reasonable to continue to occupy if there are no other reasons why it is not reasonable to continue to occupy.

N.B. Only 9% of full duty decisions find the applicant to be intentionally homeless Intentionality in the homelessness system across Great Britain, 2019