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<p>My Department publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness
and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local
authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p><p>England
has a strong homelessness safety net, providing protection to the most vulnerable
in our society.</p><p>Successful homelessness prevention and relief has risen by 30
per cent between 2009/10 and 2016/17.</p><p>But the Government remains clear that
one person without a home is one too many. We are committed to do more to prevent
more people becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>That’s why we are implementing
the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act,
in April 2018, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to
prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>We are also remodelling
statutory homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness
Reduction Act to give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support
people need.</p>
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