The Government is to invest over £32 million in developing ways to tackle the homeless. The Homelessness Innovation Fund is part of the governments strategy to cut the number of households in temporary accommodation by 50% by 2010.
Funded schemes across England are expected to reduce the number of households in temporary accommodation by 4,000 and prevent 2,400 new cases of homelessness.
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