Ellie Ames 10 October 2024

Charities call for £1bn to prevent homelessness surge

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Almost £1bn of funding is due to leave the homelessness sector in April, leaving services facing a funding cliff-edge, a group of charities has warned.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged by 76 housing and homelessness organisations to provide some certainty to the sector through a one-year rollover of existing homelessness funding.

A letter from the charities said the Government should then review homelessness-related spending across all departments in order to set up a consolidated, ring-fenced funding system from 2026-27.

Homeless Link CEO Rick Henderson said: ‘The sheer number of organisations who’ve signed this letter shows how much anxiety the funding cliff-edge is causing homelessness services across the country.

‘Organisations are already considering redundancies and scaling back services.

‘The Autumn Budget is the Government’s final opportunity to give the sector some certainty and prevent the inevitable surge in homelessness that will come if services are forced to close their doors from March.’

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