Keep up COVID funding to end homelessness, says Kerslake

By Heather Jameson | 27 July 2021

Ending homelessness is possible, but the Government needs to keep up funding or face a post-pandemic surge, an independent commission concluded.

The review chaired by former head of the civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake claimed the Government must maintain the level of funding that was available under Everyone In, the programme to get rough sleepers off the streets during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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