Gorton hotel worker says we can make another homeless hotel work

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Many of Greater Manchester's rough sleepers were given rooms in hotels as part of the emergency response to coronavirus during the first lockdown. 

This incredible and unprecedented effort was described by some as a silver lining to some of the very dark clouds of Covid-19.

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The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, made tackling rough sleeping and homelessness a personal priority in his first term as the Mayor of our area.

The video above is from March 2021 and shows Andy Burnham talking to Paul Dennett, the GMCA Lead on Housing and Homelessness.

Are 'homeless hotels' the way forward and a possible solution to these issues?

Kath Meighan told the BBC: "At the beginning, we were thrown in at the deep end - nobody had ever done this before."

There were many success stories from the story we linked at the top of the page.

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