The Labour Party has pledged to end rough sleeping through a voluntary deal with housing associations to reserve 4,000 properties for the street homeless.
In the first major housing policy announcement since Jeremy Corbyn rebuilt his cabinet, the party has pledged to end “the national shame” of rough sleeping within its first parliamentary term.
A key part of the pledge would be to double the number of homes ringfenced for people who have slept on the streets, an initiative first started by Conservative housing minister Sir George Young in 1991.