Coronavirus: Forty charities unite in call for new law to end 'patchy' homeless help

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Sky News reveals warnings of a 'disjointed approach', with one rough sleeper saying the uncertainty gives him sleepless nights.

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The group of national and community organisations, which also include the Refugee Council and Law Centres Network, want Mr Johnson to introduce four changes to take immediate effect for a year:

Mr Jenkins has been given state support as a result of the"everyone in" campaign - but despite moving to the UK from Zimbabwe in 2001 and working"as many hours as I could" and paying taxes ever since, is worried he may end up homeless again when the support dries up.

One politician supporting him is Mr Blackman, who said the"everyone in" project has been a"marvelous achievement" but is fighting to make supporting the whole homeless population"a permanent position".There are calls for emergency legislation to be brought in before parliament goes into recess If it is not,"we'll get a patchwork quilt, literally a postcode lottery of what action's taken by different local authorities", he warned.Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, also told Sky News:"Every day people are hit by the economic impact of, and therefore every day we don't have this emergency legislation there's the potential for more people to become homeless or end up rough sleeping...

They told Sky News:"Our rough sleeping taskforce has one overriding objective - to ensure as many people as possible who have been brought in off the streets in this pandemic do not return to sleeping rough.

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If all the chairmen and women of the charities donated half their six figure plus salaries then ....

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We have to look at why so many men are homeless, obviously there is a equality problem.

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