Calls for radical action as Burnham told homelessness in England may rise 25% by 2030

The brief

Andy Burnham has been warned that an additional 50,000 people in England will become homeless in the next four years without a radical “housing first” agenda of government. The incoming prime minister’s leadership team is understood to have been briefed on projections, due to be published on Monday, showing the current record levels of homelessness rising 25% by 2030 to more than 230,000 people. Burnham has promised the “biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar period” if he becomes prime minister as expected on 20 July. He is understood to have told advisers he wants to see a rapid fall in the number of people sleeping rough within months of…