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Mayor hits target for 1,000 homes for Londoners

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced he had supported more than 1,000 Londoners sleeping rough into safe, warm, and supportive homes since he was re-elected Mayor last year, as he launched his annual winter rough sleeping fundraising campaign.

The Mayor has fulfilled his pledge to deliver more than 1,000 homes for Londoners sleeping rough 18 months ahead of his April 2024 target. This landmark achievement has been made possible thanks to the Mayor’s Move On Programme (MOP) and Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme (RSAP), which provide capital and revenue funding to enable the delivery of homes with support to help Londoners sleeping rough towards housing independence. Across the two programmes, more than £120m of capital and £38m of revenue have been allocated to housing associations, local authorities, charities and other registered providers and support organisations to support rough sleepers off the streets and into longer-term homes.

Examples of schemes funded by the RSAP include:

A 32-unit modular housing scheme in Haringey provides on-site support to people sleeping rough or in emergency accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A purchase and repair programme delivering 30 self-contained homes with support provided by the GLA-commissioned tenancy sustainment teams.
Repurposing of socially rented homes to deliver supported accommodation for rough sleepers with multiple complex needs.
A range of Housing First schemes delivers longer-term homes with accompanying support to help individuals sustain tenancies and live independently.

This achievement builds on the unprecedented support offered to Londoners sleeping rough by City Hall since Sadiq became Mayor. The Mayor’s rough sleeping budget has quadrupled since 2016, and more than 13,500 people have been helped off the street by City Hall services – a record number.

But Sadiq is warning that rising bills and housing costs are forcing growing numbers of people to sleep rough on London’s streets, with the latest quarterly figures from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) showing the number of people sleeping rough in London jumped 24 per cent in the past year, meaning more than 3,600 people slept on the capital’s streets between June and September.

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