Adam Holloway

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The government has undertaken to deal with an additional £236m rough sleeping, alongside an urgent review of the issue by a former homelessness Tsar.

The new funding is in the direction of accommodation for up to 6,000 rough sleepers, and help those in immediate danger on The Streets .

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Labour said the government was "in denial about the extent" of the problem.

But Boris Johnson said he was "absolutely determined to end rough sleeping once and for all".

The Announcement of new homelessness figures, set, published on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the BBC, More Than 28,000 people in the UK, sleeping rough in the 12 months, with five times as many corners and thresholds in England, as the government published statistics have been incorporated.

The government said it had already Committed £437m to combat homelessness and rough sleeping in 2020/21, but Not 10 of a £236m says to help Extra money to meet their campaign pledge to end homelessness within the legislature.

The funds will be used to buy new property, upgrading existing units, and to rent, private rented sector properties for those who are already rough sleeping or At Risk .

"It is simply unacceptable that we sleep still so many people on The Streets ," said Mr Johnson

"We need to urgently combat The Scourge of rough sleeping, and I will not stop until thousands of people were set up helped in this situation, off the street and rebuild their lives. "

lady Louise Casey is leading the assessment in question, to advise, to both the clock and housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on what other measures should be taken.

your work in the relationship between 24-hour street activity and rough sleeping, as well as a look at the impact on people struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, and with physical and Mental Health problems.

lady Louise, said: "homelessness, and within this rough sleep, is something that the causes of the misery, so I hope that I will be able to the government to support the country to accelerate action on this issue. "

A new minister dedicated to rough sleeping has also confirmed, as Adam Holloway , will serve as Mr Jenrick, the parliamentary Private Secretary in his Department.

"Ten Years of failure"

Labour's shadow housing Secretary, John Healey , told the BBC the research showed, wasn't the government do enough.

"are Conservatives in denial about the extent of homelessness, with new figures showing that the government's own statistics seriously mislead The Public about The Number of people rough sleeping.

"After 10 Years of failure, the Conservatives, Labour should take' s plan sleeping to end rough well. "

The Chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, Polly Neate, said, said it was the right thing for the PM to take on the problem, but said it was "no big secret about what the cause of this distress".

"How do we see our services day in and day out, most of the people are tipped into homelessness, simply because there is not enough affordable, secure, and safe houses in This Country ," She Said .

"The bottom line is, people can't afford To Live Anywhere - a problem, infinitely worse, of a dire lack of social housing and cuts in housing benefits. "

Ms Neate added: "emergency measures, in order to the people from the street can quickly and housing first pilots only go so far, if you have no stable homes in order to secure this. "

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Source of news: bbc.com