Was just typing out the standard response line about any money being welcome but actually when this is announced alongside a freeze in Local Housing Allowance and nothing at all on new social housing this isn't going to 'eliminate' roughsleeping. https://twitter.com/RobertJenrick/status/1331589594937249797

If you want to eliminate roughsleeping you have to end all forms of homelessness. You have to address the structural causes of homelessness, mainly the lack of affordable housing & to provide the support & safety net people need to prevent their homelessness in the first place

If this money is allocated in the usual way, councils having to bid quickly for fixed short term allocations, then it becomes a reactive fund trying to 'fix' people who are already homeless & it will do nothing to stop new people just replacing those who do get helped.

Plus if all councils have to offer people is more temporary accommodation then that will just get filled up and people will be pushed back into homelessness without the foundation of a secure home to rely on. We all know temporary accommodation is not a long term answer.

Yes, more money will help some people, but whilst the Westminster government choose to see homelessness as something to address person by person & not to be solved at a systematic level we won't be ending rough sleeping any time soon.