{"id":92745,"date":"2026-08-10T06:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92745"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:29:26","slug":"burnham-must-tackle-homelessness-urgently-says-charity-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/burnham-must-tackle-homelessness-urgently-says-charity-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham must tackle homelessness urgently, says charity boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29IuHe.img?w=768&h=482&m=6\" alt=\"The encampment in central London continues to grow despite the Prime Minister\u2019s pledge to end rough sleeping - Belinda Jiao for The Telegraph\" width=\"677\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The head of a homelessness charity has told\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/andy-burnham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Andy Burnham<\/a>\u00a0that he must \u201curgently respond\u201d to Britain\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">rough sleeping crisis<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/burnham-must-tackle-homelessness-urgently-says-charity-boss\/ar-AA29Id4g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a796d7bd3aa40c4a76ac681cde42907&ei=41\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The head of a homelessness charity has told\u00a0Andy Burnham\u00a0that he must \u201curgently respond\u201d to Britain\u2019s\u00a0rough sleeping crisis. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tent-city-London.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92746,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92745\/revisions\/92746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}