Manchester's mayor has set up a fund to raise money for the city's rough sleepers, to which he donates 15% of his £110,000 salary
wind that bothers Gary Cundle the most. The 47-year-old has been sleeping rough for eight months now, bedding down in the same spot outside Manchester’s crown court every night. Winter was the worst, of course, but last weekend he struggled to sleep as an unseasonably chilly breeze whipped across his face. Even three sleeping bags offered little respite. “It gets into your bones,” he says.
Mr Burnham’s approach is hardly radical. Rather than opening homeless shelters only when the temperature plummets, the city offers every homeless person emergency shelter every night and then helps them find stable accommodation. Permanent homes are funded by a government grant of £8m and a “social-impact bond”, under which the government will pay out to private investors if the scheme keeps rough sleepers off the streets. “It’s not at all rocket science,” Mr Burnham admits.
Devolution has helped. Mr Burnham reckons mayors have a “convening power” they can use to add momentum in one or two areas. “It’s the ability to say it’s everyone’s responsibility,” he says. The region’s ten councils have coughed up for the shelters. The mayor has harnessed the power of the city’s “driving forces”, music and football. Vincent Kompany, the Manchester City captain, is donating the proceeds of this year’s testimonial events marking his decade at the club.
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