Join our campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness
To Break the Cycle of rising homelessness, the homelessness funding model needs to change. Use our Breaking the Cycle campaign pack to ask your MP to support a fairer, more sustainable funding model.
Write to your MP
Download our Breaking the Cycle campaign pack, which includes template letters for your MP, press releases, social media posts and tips on running a successful meeting.
Breaking the Cycle: Read the report
Our Breaking the Cycle report sets out the issues behind the failure of our current homelessness funding model and what needs to change.
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Breaking the Cycle: May 2025 summary briefing
Ahead of the 2025 Comprehensive Spending Review, we have updated and summarised the key points of our Breaking the Cycle report to inform politicians and officials shaping and scrutinising the government's plans on homelessness funding.
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Breaking the Cycle: full report
Our analysis of the homelessness funding system and what needs to change
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Breaking the Cycle: Principles for a fairer funding system
A shorted version of the full Breaking the Cycle report, focused on what is required to build a better, more cost-effective homelessness funding system
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Breaking the Cycle: Two-page summary
A quick summary of the Breaking the Cycle report, designed for sharing with MPs and other political stakeholders
Latest campaign news
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Comprehensive Spending Review: A step towards Breaking the Cycle?
Our analysis of how the Government's spending review will affect homelessness, and what needs to happen next.
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Homeless Link welcomes confirmation on rough sleeping decriminalisation
The government has announced it is scrapping the Vagrancy Act. Read the details and Homeless Link's response.
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MP speaks up for Homeless Link member funding in Parliament
Bath MP Wera Hobhouse raises the issue of short-term undermining the work of Homeless Link member Julian House in Parliament. A call for a longer-term funding model is a key element of our Breaking the Cycle campaign.
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Government must break the cycle of the trauma of sleeping rough
Homeless Link responds to new statistics on rough sleeping in London from the CHAIN database.
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Select Committee backs reforms to homelessness funding and strategy
Housing, Communities and Local Government committee back key reforms to homelessness funding and strategy endorsed in our Breaking the Cycle campaign
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Homeless Link sign Open Letter on welfare reforms
Our Breaking the Cycle campaign calls on a more joined-up, cross-government approach to homelessness funding. So we have signed an open letter calling on the government to think again about potential impacts on homelessness caused by proposed disability benefit cuts.
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Homeless Link present Breaking the Cycle campaign to MPs
MPs hear about Homeless Link's Breaking the Cycle campaign for a fairer and more efficient homelessness funding model at the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Ending Homelessness
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Reset Homelessness series
In partnership with Inside Housing, we have supported a selection of members to speak out about the specific funding challenges they face in housing sector's flagship publication.
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Breaking the cycle: our submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2025
In an official response to a government consultation, Homeless Link has set out how the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review is a chance to reset the approach to ending homelessness and empower our members to make an even bigger impact
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Dozens of MPs hear from frontline services in Parliament
At a recent Parliamentary reception over 25 MPs heard how they can help break the cycle, both from our CEO Rick Henderson in a keynote address and from member organisations based in their constituency who attended the event.
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Select Committee backs long-term funding to tackle "rough sleeping emergency"
In a letter to the Secretary of State Angela Rayner, the Housing, Communities and Local government Select Committee has supported a number of recommendations featured in our Breaking the Cycle report, including backing for long-term funding settlements.
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