Recommendation 28

We pressed MHCLG on the poor coordination in funding for homelessness caused by the absence of a cross-government strategy. Local authorities need to understand numerous funding streams, from different government departments. MHCLG explained that its November 2024 local government funding policy statement undertook to roll together three of its funding streams for 2025–26–the Rough Sleeping Initiative, the Ex-Offenders Grant and Housing First–to sit alongside the main Homelessness Prevention Grant. It acknowledged there were too many funding streams going into local government and said that it is committed to synthesising other grant funding in the following year. More broadly, MHCLG expects the forthcoming strategy to draw on the results of the 2025 spending review in setting out how it will address homelessness for the next few years.39