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<p>The latest statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping in England are published
and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics#rough-sleeping"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics#rough-sleeping</a></p><p>At
Budget the Chancellor announced 28 million pounds of funding to pilot the Housing
First approach for 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>The
exact allocation to the areas will be subject to on-going work with the regions and
refinement of the scope of the pilots. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local
Government are in regular contact with officials in the West Midlands and will continue
to work closely with them going forward.</p><p>The recently established Rough Sleeping
Advisory Panel, of which Andy Street, the Mayor of the West Midlands is a member,
will support the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Reduction Taskforce to develop a
cross-government strategy to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and to eliminate it altogether
by 2027.</p>
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