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<p>This Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and
we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. To achieve
this we have taken a number of important actions such as implementing the most ambitious
legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act which commences in April
2018.</p><p>We have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce
that will design and drive forward the implementation of a cross Government strategy
to achieve our commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether
by 2027. Supporting the Taskforce is the expert Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel.</p><p>The
Department has allocated over £1 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping
through to 2020.</p><p> </p>
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