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Manchester council has announced a major crackdown on tenancy fraud in a multi-million-pound programme to reduce homelessness across the city.

The town hall secured a £3m boost from the government to fight homelessness on Friday (October 10), World Homelessness Day.

Now, the authority has confirmed it will spend the money on preventing Mancunians becoming homeless in the first place, and work to reduce the risks of someone falling back into rough sleeping after they find somewhere to live.

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Part of the cash will go to ‘ensuring social housing in the city is available to those who need it most’, with council chiefs promising ‘a major crackdown on tenancy fraud’, a drive to bring empty homes back to the property m

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