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    COUNTING THE COST OF HOMELESSNESS

    Oct 04, 2021 4 minutes

    Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is spent on homelessness every year.

    The Westminster government is spending £750 million in tackling homelessness and rough sleeping this year. In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to spend £12m to do the same thing, including £8m to help local authorities scale up Housing First – giving rough sleepers a home alongside support to help them keep it. Wales has set aside £5m to deal with the issue.

    But each figure represents an outlay that needn’t exist. Preventing people from falling into homelessness in the first place is not only the moral thing to do, it makes financial sense too.

    That’s why Big

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