Plan to build 3,300 homes in a year and ‘end rough sleeping for good`
(World News UK)

The Government is aiming to ‘end` rough sleeping (Picture: PA) The Government is fast tracking a scheme to ‘end rough sleeping for good` during the coronavirus pandemic. It is aiming to build more than 3,000 new homes and make them available for rough sleepers in the next 12 months. The plan – which will see £160 million of a £381 million four-year pot brought forward to be spent this year – is a bid to prevent those taken off the streets during the pandemic returning to homelessness once the crisis eases. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick described the cash injection, first announced in the Budget in March, as ‘unprecedented`. Out of the 6,000 planned ‘housing units` due to be built using...