Jessica Murray
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first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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And alongside a bed every night scheme, it had a really significant impact.
It provided 330 tenancies to people with an 82% retention rate, which is
It's really, really good.
And as I say, obviously it was a very small scale trial.
But I think there's been a lot of scepticism around it as a model.
People think, you know, is it fair or is it sort of productive to give a house straight away to these people who often do have complex needs, which does mean that they have been unable to kind of hold down a tenancy previously.
But with the right wraparound support and care, I think that's crucial to include here.
It's not just about the bricks and mortar, you know, having a place to stay.
It is also having the care and the support so that they are able to sustain it in the long term.
So at the last rough sleeping count, which was in autumn 2025, there was 4,793 people on the streets.
And that was a record high from 2017, was the last record high.
And that is overall a 160% increase since 2010.
So the numbers have jumped up massively.
And this is despite the fact we've had, you know, Boris Johnson's conservative government pledged to end rough sleeping, Keir Starmer pledged to half rough sleeping, and now we're back to, you know, a pledge to end it.
So I think while most people would really welcome Andy Burnham's promise, his bold ambition coming into office, I think there is a certain degree of scepticism about how easy it'll be to do.
It's 3,000 people, but I think what he described as the most entrenched rough sleepers, the people who are often in and out of hostels and emergency accommodation, it's those 3,000 that he's particularly focusing on.
We have these regular rough sleeping counts where essentially people walk around the streets in a certain area and literally count how many people they can see.
Yes, yeah.
Even as a method of counting rough sleepers has its limitations.
A lot of people are sleeping rough in very hidden places, whether that's kind of woodlands or abandoned car parks or abandoned buildings that get completely missed off.
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