Campaigning and Influencing

Breaking the Cycle

To Break the Cycle of ever-rising numbers of people facing up to the trauma of homelessness, the homelessness funding model needs to change.

It's time for government to stop focusing solely on expensive short-term crisis measures, and invest in long-term solutions and homelessness prevention.

In 2025, the government's Comprehensive Spending Review and the promised new Homelessness Strategy are perfect opportunities to embed this new thinking across government.

A sustainable, joined up approach to funding will help unleash the full potential of our excellent frontline homelessness services. Together we can Break the Cycle and get back on track to ending homelessness.

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A stronger voice together

Homeless Link represents organisations working on homelessness throughout the country. We listen carefully to what our members are finding on the ground and give a stronger voice to them and to the sector as we work to improve policies at local and national level and build a movement to end homelessness.

Our latest policy work

Homeless Link’s policy team regularly produce specialist analysis to influence and shape local and national government policy. Here is a selection of our recent work.

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Our campaigns

Keep Our Doors Open

Keep Our Doors Open is Homeless Link’s campaign to give homelessness services the resources they need to continue to support people in the face of rising inflation and costs.

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Non UK Nationals

People who come to the UK from elsewhere have complex rights to housing. The law is constantly changing, and non UK nationals often end up homeless. Our members are deeply concerned with this, so we continue to work with the Home Office and local authorities to cut through the rhetoric and ensure that people get the help and support that they are entitled to.

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Get involved

Our influencing work is dependent on membership involvement. There are lots of ways that you can take part:-

National Advisory Council

Our National Advisory Council (NAC) is made up of representatives of the homelessness sector. It meets quarterly to talk about the policy issues that are currently affecting homelessness. To find out more please get in touch.

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Policy Influencing Network

The Policy Influencing Network is for anyone in the sector working on influencing and is a place to come together to share intelligence and offer support.

Campaign Key Supporters

For each of our campaigns we have a network of key member organisations who sign up to letters and take actions in their own areas. For more information about our current campaign see this page.

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