Government pledge to halve rough sleepers in 5 years

Speaking to Paste BN, Minister for Local Government and Homelessness Alison McGovern was asked whether she accepts that homelessness has worsened under a Labour government. She said: "I think it would be hard to turn around 14 years of Tory disaster in a single year."

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A family is made homeless or threatened with homelessness every five minutes in England and as winter and Christmas approach, thousands are stuck in temporary accommodation or sleeping rough.
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