Thousands of beds in shelters and new supported living accommodation in England will be provided as part of a strategy to end rough sleeping.
An extra 14,000 emergency beds for rough sleepers and 3,000 support staff roles will be created this year as part of a three-year £500m plan, according to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
A further 2,400 long-term supported homes for those with the most complex needs, including young people, will also be delivered by March 2025 through a £200m accommodation programme.
The plans will be paid for with £2bn of funding over the next three years which was initially announced in the spring spending review.
Of this sum, £764m has been allocated to councils and government partners.
Boris Johnson’s winning 2019 election manifesto contained a commitment to ending “the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament”.
It said this would be achieved through an extension of the Rough Sleeping…
