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A message to you, Andy: the nation needs you to keep your word on rough sleeping

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If tech giants want to build data centres, make them give something back to society

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I was homeless as a child. I know what Andy Burnham needs to do to end rough sleeping for good

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Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis?

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Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start

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Big Issue vendors react to Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping pledge: ‘It would mean the world’

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‘I work with homeless veterans. It takes more than a bed for Christmas to help them out of homelessness’

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‘If people are sleeping rough, to me it says we don’t have the care for people that we should have’

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Every rough sleeper to be offered a route off the street by Christmas, says Andy Burnham

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Florence Eshalomi

‘Mum’s no longer with us. I know she’d be proud that my job is helping people into a secure home’

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Florence Eshalomi named as homelessness minister: ‘I know what a difference a safe home makes’

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I founded a homelessness charity 10 years ago. These are the moments that kept me going

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Britain needs a new system to tackle homelessness. Here’s how Andy Burnham can change it

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Andy Burnham wants to end rough sleeping. These new statistics show the challenge he faces

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‘The reality in Ukraine is stark. But there is hope in addressing homelessness’

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‘I ended up on the streets for about 16 months. I wasn’t bedding down, I was taking buses at night’

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‘Andy Burnham is right to make ending rough sleeping his first priority. Now comes the hard part’

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How one woman’s arrest helped to scrap the Vagrancy Act and decriminalise rough sleeping

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New prime minister Andy Burnham starts with vow to end rough sleeping. Here’s how he aims to do it

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Homelessness could rise by 25% by the end of the decade. Here’s how Andy Burnham can take action

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