The £4,000 pay-out follows a watchdog's ruling the authority failed to understand its duties to him.
A council has been ordered following an ombudsman inquiry to pay £4,000 to a homeless man who lived in his car and a garage during winter.
But he moved out complaining that ceilings too low for him to stand had left him in pain, and the inquiry found no alternative home was offered.After moving out to live in his car, the local authority later told the man that an offer of alternative accommodation would have been made had he asked for it, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman said.
It said the council did not review how suitable the provisional accommodation was when its tenant complained, meaning an alternative offer did not emerge.
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