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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

Burnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas

Women bending putting coin in container next to  person with blue sleeping bag and dog with tube station and bus out of focus in distance behind
Burnham says local leaders must offer people a route out of homelessness if they want one. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Andy Burnham has urged local leaders to offer all rough sleepers in England a route off the streets by Christmas, as he pledges another £100m to end street homelessness.

Arguing in the Guardian that rough sleeping has become so common it now “feels like part of the scenery”, Burnham promised he would mount a Covid-style campaign to get everyone off the streets this winter.

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