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Summary

In 1998 the Prime Minister set a target to reduce the number of people sleeping rough by at least two-thirds by 2002. The target was met a year early and has been sustained every year since. Many of the people who have been helped off the streets have found a bed in a hostel as the first step in the transition back to independence and a settled home.

However we found that too many people are staying in the hostel system for too long. Poor physical conditions and services that don't motivate people to address their needs can reinforce rather than break the cycle of homelessness. Also many more people have been leaving hostels for negative reasons - like eviction or abandonment - than for positive ones - like finding employment and a settled home. We want to change this.

We want hostels and other facilities for homeless people to provide the best opportunities for their clients,opportunities that will help people to move forward into work and a settled home. Through the £90 million Hostels Capital Improvement Programme we want to demonstrate that hostels and day centres can be centres of excellence and choice which positively change lives, they can be places of change.

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