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<p>The 84 projects funded through the Homelessness Prevention Programme are multi-faceted
and do not concentrate on one particular reason for a household’s homelessness.</p><p>They
aim to help to ensure that more people have tailored support to avoid becoming homeless
in the first place, and receive the rapid support they need to make a sustainable
recovery from homelessness.</p><p>We are supporting 84 projects working across 205
district and unitary local authorities in England through our £50 million Homelessness
Prevention Programme.</p><p>Spending includes:</p><ul><li><p>£20 million for local
authorities to trial new initiatives, working with a wider group of at risk people
to help families and individuals before they reach crisis point;</p></li><li><p>a
£20 million rough sleeping fund to help new rough sleepers, or people at imminent
risk of sleeping rough, get the rapid support they need to recover and move on from
a rough sleeping crisis; and</p></li><li><p>£10 million of funding for Social Impact
Bonds to provide targeted support for entrenched single homeless people.</p></li></ul><p>
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