Rough sleeping will head back towards record levels unless Labour fills a looming £1bn shortfall in frontline funding when deals agreed by the last government expire in the coming months, dozens of homelessness charities have said.
Amid what campaigners have called “a wall of silence” from the government about how it will tackle fast-rising homelessness, 76 charity bosses this week told the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, any failure to extend existing funding risked “the most significant setback in progress towards ending homelessness and rough sleeping in recent history”.
