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<p>The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes regular statistics
on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in
England. These are published at a local authority level.</p><p>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>The
Government remains committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should
ever have to sleep rough. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022
and eliminate it altogether by 2027. To achieve this, we will set up a new homelessness
reduction taskforce that will focus on prevention and affordable housing, and we will
pilot a Housing First approach to tackle entrenched rough sleeping.</p><p>We are also
implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction
Act, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent
them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p>
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