11 February 2022

“The government is aiming to end rough sleeping by 2024, but some charities have said the scheme will not go far enough to address the problem”, writes the Big Issue’s Anezka Turek.

Glass Door’s co-head of casework, Neil Parkinson, is quoted saying the following:

We welcome the additional funding and provision announced, and in particular the specialised support around mental health and substance use issues experienced by people who are homeless.

However, we believe that it does not nearly meet the scale of the problem we witness: it plans to create 2,900 homes across England, when latest data from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) report show that more than 2,900 people were sleeping rough in London alone between October and December 2021.

The full article can be found here: https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/new-accommodation-programme-will-house-rough-sleepers-in-converted-hotels-and-schoolsne/