Click the tabs for the latest progress in England, Scotland and Wales:
A government commitment to end rough sleeping by 2027, with a strategy set to be delivered by the new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce
A £30 million fund for councils with high levels of rough sleeping and £28 million for three regional Housing First pilots
The Homelessness Reduction Act was implemented in 2018, ensuring that thousands more people get support they need to prevent and end their homelessness
Recent progress in Scotland includes:
The Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group being established by the Scottish Government to look at transformational change across the country
A £50 million Ending Homelessness Together fund to support the group’s recommendations
A Scottish Government commitment to build at least 50,000 affordable homes by 2021, including 35,000 social homes
Recent progress in Wales includes:
New prevention duties on local councils to help anyone who is under threat of homelessness or to relieve the situation for people already homeless
National Housing First principles for Wales being established, with funding to pilot the approach across the country
A Welsh Government committment to end youth homelessness within ten years (by 2027).