Here’s how Andy Burnham really could end homelessness | Daniel Lavelle

Utilising empty homes, capping rents and fixing the benefits system would all help, but they’d require a serious fight In January 2017, the then mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, promised to end rough sleeping in the region by 2020 – a bold, frankly absurd promise that inevitably didn’t materialise. Nearly a decade later, shortly after becoming prime minister, Burnham promised to end rough sleeping again, only this time for the whole of England . So why should we believe him this time around? I have interviewed Burnham several times over the past decade. At the end of 2019, when it wa

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