The funding forms part of the government’s £433 million Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme and will create over 2,900 move-on homes. This is a good thing.
Alongside providing mental health support, it will help alleviate the problem of falling bed-spaces in supported housing, one of the reasons it’s harder to get the rising number of homeless young people off the streets over the last decade. By that measure alone, it seems certain to bring us closer to realising the Prime Minister’s ambitious aim to end rough sleeping within this parliament.
However, this sort of funding is coming out of government in such a piecemeal fashion that many are worried it’s preventing the strategic approach needed to ensure that ambition is realised.
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