Government Misses Target To Deliver 3,300 Homes For Rough Sleepers

In its response to a recent Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee report on homelessness and private renting, the government indicated that it had missed its target but would not say how many homes it had delivered. The government first announced plans to deliver 3,300 homes for rough sleepers in May last year as part of an effort to rehouse the thousands of rough sleepers who were placed in hotels at the start of the first COVID-19 lockdown. In October, the government allocated more than £150m to councils in a move it said would fund 3,348 homes across 276 schemes. Read more on Inside Housing.

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