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Burnham pledges £900m for homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping

Downing Street to almost double funding with further £432m in this week’s budget Andy Burnham is to double spending on ending rough sleeping to almost £900m by the end of the current parliament, as he steps up efforts to get people off the streets by Christmas.

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