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Reasonable Preference Categories, Housing Act 1996, as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002

• People who are homeless (within the meaning of Part 7 of the 1996 Act); this includes people who are intentionally homeless and those who are not in priority need.
• People who are owed a duty by any housing authority under section 190(2), 193(2) or 195(2) of the 1996 Act (or under section 65(2) of the Housing Act 1985) or who are occupying accommodation secured by any housing authority under section 192(3).
• People occupying insanitary or overcrowded housing or otherwise living in unsatisfactory housing conditions.
• People who need to move on medical or welfare grounds.
• People who need to move to a particular locality in the district of the housing authority, where failure to meet that need would cause hardship (to themselves or to others).