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What counting women sleeping rough in London taught me about Andy Burnham’s homelessness promise

spent a morning shadowing the women's rough sleeping census, a groundbreaking project which proves that thousands of women are missed on the streets. How can the new prime minister achieve his mission of ending rough sleeping if women are left behind?

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