Overview
- The National Plan to End Homelessness sets three pledges by 2029/30: halve long-term rough sleeping, end unlawful B&B use for families, and strengthen prevention.
- Ministers will legislate for a new “duty to collaborate” so prisons, hospitals and social care coordinate to stop people being discharged into homelessness.
- Funding includes £950m for 5,000 good‑quality temporary homes, £124m for supported housing to help about 2,500 people off the streets, £37m for community services, and £50m for councils’ prevention work.
- Crisis and other charities welcomed the focus but say the plan falls short, noting only about £100m appears new and warning the housing benefit freeze makes private rents unaffordable for many.
- Shelter estimates 382,618 people are homeless in England, with 175,025 children, and FOI-based data show acute pressures in Greater Manchester, including 9,589 people homeless in the city.