Rough sleepers in England are to be offered housing under a plan unveiled by Burnham, in an announcement framed around the aim of getting people indoors for Christmas.
The proposal has been compared with the “Everyone In” initiative used during the Covid-19 pandemic, when emergency accommodation was provided to people sleeping rough. The latest plan similarly centres on offering housing to those without shelter.
Burnham described the approach with the phrase “Everyone in for Christmas”, linking the announcement to a seasonal push to address rough sleeping and to the earlier pandemic-era model.
The plan applies to rough sleepers in England. The source material does not provide further details on the precise delivery mechanism, eligibility criteria, funding arrangements or timetable for implementation.
The announcement is significant because it places housing at the centre of the response to rough sleeping and invokes one of the most prominent emergency homelessness interventions of recent years. The latest known position is that the plan has been unveiled and presented as a housing offer for people sleeping rough across England.
