Rough sleeping has more than doubled since 2010. The number of people dying homeless has risen by 50% in the last 5 years (726 people last year). This shames us as a society. @UKLabour is right, as a party, to see it as a ‘moral mission’ to end it, within 5 years, via: (1/5)
👉 A £600 million ‘Modern Hostels Fund’ for good quality homeless accommodation with 5,000 additional bed spaces to take people off the streets & help them rebuild their lives. (2/5)
👉 A £200 million ‘Hostels Transformation Fund’ to turn existing hostels into places where homeless people can be more comfortable & turn their lives around. (3/5)
👉 A new £100 million a year scheme for emergency winter shelter & support to save lives, starting this winter & getting people off the streets in the cold weather. (4/5)
👉 4,000 additional ‘Housing First’ homes – a pioneering scheme to get some rough sleepers straight off the streets & into permanent housing, & 4,000 new permanent ‘move-on’ homes, ring-fenced for rough sleepers moving out of hostel accommodation. (5/5)
