Are England's rough sleepers in decline?

摘要

Between 2010 and 2017, the number of people sleeping rough in England increased each year - more than doubling from 1,768 to 4,751, according to government figures. Prime Minister Theresa May spoke of this "national shame" in a speech on homelessness in March 2018, and a few months later the government published a strategy to meet an election pledge to "halve rough sleeping by 2022, and eliminate it altogether by 2027" (ind.pn/2Har9vA).