{"id":1189070,"date":"2026-09-06T05:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:07:35","slug":"britains-new-pm-takes-on-fight-against-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189070\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s new PM takes on fight against homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homelessness remains a visible challenge in England, with scores of people sleeping rough on the streets of <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/london\/t-19070764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>\u00a0and other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Many unhoused people describe struggles with mental health, addiction and limited access to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>While British Prime Minister <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/andy-burnham\/t-78006143\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Burnham<\/a> has pledged to end homelessness nationwide, charities and experts say lasting progress will require major investment in <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/housing\/t-72595642\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affordable housing<\/a> and social services. Manchester&#8217;s experience shows both the potential and the limits of current approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homelessness remains a visible challenge in England, with scores of people sleeping rough on the streets of London\u00a0and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1189070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117222365112463345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}