🏠Taking Housing First from Pilot to Policy, with Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram and Steve Morgan CBE

On the eve of Labour Party Conference, the CSJ are taking a plan to end rough sleeping to Liverpool - Housing First. The CSJ first came across the Housing First model in 2016, having engaged with a local project in Camden, which in turn was inspired by the Finnish Housing First model. The CSJ then visited Finland to develop a focused proposal for England, subsequently taking then Housing Secretary Sajid Javid on an official visit to Helsinki to view the impact of the approach on the ground. The project convinced the government to allocate £28 million for the three city-region pilots and to build the evidence base for the effectiveness of Housing First in England and how it should be rolled out more widely. In 2017, the CSJ published its first report, Housing First, followed by a larger paper, Close to Home, which outlined how the government could scale up Housing First across England. Following the success of the city-region pilots, the CSJ's latest report, No Place Like Home, lays out the steps that Government should take to put an end to rough sleeping. By rolling out Housing First nationally, and doubling the number of places available, we believe we can help the most chronic rough sleepers out of the cycle of homelessness. Alongside Chief Exec Andy Cook and Senior Researcher Josh Nicholson, we are joined by four champions of our proposals: - Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester - Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region - Steve Morgan, Founder of the Steve Morgan Foundation and founder and former Chair of housebuilders Redrow - Matthew Torbitt, Senior Fellow at the CSJ.

Read more at: www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/no-place-like-home