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Ending Homelessness Isn’t as Impossible as It Sounds
The U.K. has a goal to get people off the streets. This charity has a plan.
A home doesn’t have to be a dream.
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It may be a little hard to remember the last time anyone in elected office in Britain spoke about anything other than Brexit. But it wasn't so long ago that all the parties agreed about the boldest policy Prime Minister Theresa May has announced in office so far: her promise to end homelessness.
The pledge to end street-sleeping, or what is known in the U.K. as "rough sleeping," by 2027 was included in all the major party election programs. May repeated it at a major speech in March in which she said the problem was a "source of national shame." So why is action proving so difficult?