Healey calls for new rough sleeping taskforce

By Dan Peters | 30 January 2020

Ministers will not end rough sleeping in this country before 2082 based on its current rate of progress, shadow housing secretary, John Healey, has said.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Healey said, based on current progress, it would take nearly 40 years for the Government to bring the level of rough sleeping back to the level it was in 2010.

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