Councils told to house all rough sleepers in England by weekend

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Government’s urgent request welcomed but concerns expressed over how task will be funded

Councils have been given 48 hours to find emergency accommodation for all rough sleepers in England following an unprecedented, but unfunded, request from the government that all homeless people should be housed by Sunday.

 

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'Rough sleepers' sounds like a great term to gloss over homelessness; I'm surprised our president hasn't adopted this.

Kevin_One77 mate your home land is on the ball.

They were always there, the crisis makes them visible

Only takes a worldwide crisis to sort out basic human rights....

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