Burnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas
Submitted 17 hours ago by Vosh@programming.dev to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/18/burnham-national-drive-rough-sleepers-christmas
Nester@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Unfortunately the proposed £100m won’t touch the sides in terms of homelessness. We just don’t have the social housing stock to house everyone at the moment, and as this article points out our temporary accommodation situation is dire.
Just to be clear, temporary accommodation are traditionally places like hostels owe ed and operated by local councils, and are used as the stepping stone to get someone into permanent (hopefully social) housing.