Homelessness by Design: The Elusive Promise of a Winter Solution The recent pledge from Andy Burnham to provide a route off the streets for all rough sleepers in England by Christmas is laudable, but it's precisely this kind of well intentioned yet piecemeal approach that has allowed homelessness to persist as an entrenched social issue.
By framing rough sleeping as a problem to be solved through targeted interventions and government funding, we overlook the deeper structural causes of this crisis.
The £100m pledged by Burnham is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 280,000 people who experience homelessness each year in England.