{"id":1565,"date":"2025-10-10T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:48:05","slug":"housing-first-the-solution-to-uk-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Housing First \u2013\u00a0the solution to UK homelessness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-1024x479.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-1024x479.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-300x140.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-768x359.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-1536x718.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DW-Inside-Europe-2048x957.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Could the cure to homelessness be as simple as giving homes to the homeless? Too expensive, some might say. But a pilot project in three English cities has proved this might well be the way forward. Manchester is one of the cities where the Housing First programme has shown good results. Here is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BEVANGER-Housing-First-UK.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the cure to homelessness be as simple as giving homes to the homeless? Too expensive, some might say. But a pilot project in three English cities has proved this might well be the way forward. Manchester is one of the cities where the Housing First programme has shown good results. Here is my report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}