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<p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the Chancellor announced £28 million of funding to pilot
the Housing First approach for some of the country’s most entrenched rough sleepers.
The pilots will cover the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Manchester, and
the Liverpool City Region.</p><p>This action builds on wider action that we have taken
to achieve our manifesto commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating
it altogether by 2027. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>establishing the Rough Sleeping
and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, to drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government
strategy;</p></li><li><p>allocating over £1 billion to prevent homelessness and rough
sleeping through to 2020; and</p></li><li>implementing the most ambitious legislative
reform in this area in decades: the Homelessness Reduction Act.</li></ul><p>The Department
for Communities and Local Government publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping
which are published at national, London and 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>
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