Over the past two decades successive initiatives have helped our country make real progress. We have heard the stories of people who experience homelessness and understood that it blights lives. We have decided to take action. From initiatives to tackle rough sleeping, families stuck in bed and breakfast or temporary accommodation, to investment in hostels to make them “Places of Change” and help for people to keep their homes during the recession: we have shown that we can work together across public, private and voluntary sectors to bring progress.