Ministers facing revolt over plans to criminalise rough sleeping
Conservative former minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among those backing efforts to scrap new police powers to move on rough sleepers.
Conservative former minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among those backing efforts to scrap new police powers to move on rough sleepers.
There were 3,898 rough sleepers on a single night in autumn 2023.
The £34.6 million support package is on top of the original allocation of up to £500 million over three years.
Core homelessness is projected to reach 270,000 by 2024 as the cost-of-living crisis begins to bite.
Campaigners have condemned the plan, with homeless charity Crisis saying it could leave people with no legal status facing “destitution”.
Thousands of people were taken off the streets under the Everyone In scheme.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said just one person sleeping on the streets is ‘one too many’.
As politicians bicker over Brexit, new statistics show the number of rough sleepers increased to 4,677 in 2018, up from 2,414 in 2013.
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