Policy paper

The rough sleeping strategy

The rough sleeping strategy sets out the government’s vision for halving rough sleeping by 2022 and ending it by 2027.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 13 August 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This publication was withdrawn on 5 September 2022

The 2018 Strategy has been updated.

Applies to England

Documents

The rough sleeping strategy

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-0763-6, Cm. 9685

PDF, 1.22 MB, 77 pages

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The rough sleeping strategy is a wide ranging document which lays out the government’s plans to help people who are sleeping rough now and to put in place the structures to end rough sleeping for good.

In December 2018 we published a delivery plan setting out progress and next steps.

Published 13 August 2018