We should all applaud Andy Burnham’s commitment to end rough sleeping (‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?, 24 July). Homelessness feeds reoffending, reoffending feeds custody, and release feeds the street. No government can credibly promise to end rough sleeping while one public institution keeps releasing people straight into it. The £340m to be spent at the street end will not fix a pipeline that starts at the prison gate. Until the government treats prison release as homelessness prevention, not homelessness management, the promise will stay a promise.