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<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one
should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we have made a manifesto commitment to
halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it altogether by 2027, placing a priority on
preventing people from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>Last summer we
published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious
£100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the
structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed
over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review
period.</p><p><br> The Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) brings more people such as
single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority.
These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until
the end of March 2018. The HRA has placed additional duties on local authorities to
work to prevent and relieve homelessness for all eligible homeless applicants and
to secure interim/permanent accommodation for those in priority need. The Department’s
new case level data collection system, H-CLIC, since April 2018 includes information
on households whose homelessness has been prevented and relieved, as well as those
currently in different types of temporary accommodation, including bed and breakfast
accommodation and hostels. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&data=02%7C01%7CCatherine.Barham%40communities.gov.uk%7Ce6d2de6e6066400e9b7208d70560a8f4%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C636983785025299486&sdata=4o4VNejDER%2B7hW4HXY68ZzNpg28qf%2F1%2FnnNwU4ym%2F9g%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p>
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