At the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020, a government scheme called “Everyone In” succeeded in getting almost every single person sleeping rough in Britain off the streets and into some form of accommodation. £3.2 million-worth of emergency investment was given to local authorities at the time to keep people off the streets while Covid raged, and a temporary ban on evictions came into place. It was a massive undertaking which helped around 37,000 vulnerable people, and it is considered to have been one of Boris Johnson’s government’s success stories. When Johnson came into power in 2019, one of his pledges was to eradicate rough sleeping by 2024.