Yes, I completely agree with that analysis. When the action plan is published next week from the group, you'll see that they address both intentionality and local connection, and they make some proposals for us to be able to deal with that in the short term and then in the longer term. And, as I said, we have a positive response to it. I only saw it yesterday, but I'll be putting a detailed response to that next week. I hope that's before I come to the committee so that we will see it, but, if not, I'll certainly be able to share it with the committee.

I met with Jon Sparkes, who chairs that group, only yesterday to talk through what we can do, and he identified many of the things that you've just talked about there. We do need to have a whole-system approach, but there's no getting away from it: the fundamental difficulty here is people falling into poverty. So, we do need to do something about that as well, and there are major problems with the welfare system as it currently operates that are causing problems.

One of the things we've been wrestling with is what we can do to shore that up in Wales, and we've been working very hard with the group to look at some of those issues, which I'm happy to explore with the committee also. So, there'll be three things to say, really: what we can do in the short term to make sure that we minimise rough-sleeping this Christmas—I'm not prepared to say that we can eradicate it until I'm sure, but we certainly want to minimise it as much as is humanly possible—what we can do to shift the temporary accommodation solutions away from things that we all find unacceptable into more acceptable things in that short term; and what we can do to remove some of the unintended legislative barriers in the short term and then in the longer term.

But it's also important to put it in the context that we are in the process of implementing the renting homes Act. We've got the fees Act through this Senedd. We have radically changed the face of housing in Wales, and those changes, as they bed in, will also make a difference to prevent the slide into homelessness, because it's about the acute intervention, but it's also about prevention—so, stopping the slide. And, as I said during my statement, we have to address both ends of that at the same time or we will just be stemming an ever-increasing flow.