On any one winter night, around 5,000 people in Britain sleep rough

journeys have brought the guests at the Soup Kitchen on London’s Tottenham Court Road together. Craig, a 34-year-old decorator from Swansea, was left by his wife, sold his house and spent the money on crack so that she couldn’t get her hands on it. Nick, a 37-year-old from Grimsby, ran away from his debts. Deyan, a 40-year-old from Bulgaria, with a master’s in economics, has struggled to find work in London that covers the rent.

According to Crisis, a charity, around 170,000 households are homeless. That includes sofa-surfers and people in hostels. Less than a tenth are regular rough sleepers. Numbers fell in the first decade of this century, thanks to a Labour government’s efforts to deal with the problem, but have increased sharply over the past ten years.

With a continued net decline in social rented housing, privately rented accommodation covered in part by housing benefit is the main source of subsidised housing these days, so the cut in housing benefit had a big impact. Crisis says that evictions from the private rented sector were the main reason for the increase in homelessness in 2010-18.

It is the banks hold over the UK population

The main driver of rough sleeping is cruel and punitive Westminster policies.

It's the SAFEST PLACE to be... The UNSAFEST place is inside your own home...

But Labour says keep immigration going. Well, guess what, immigration drives demand up.

I've kept off this subject until now but in the uk there should be no-one sleeping rough. Veterans, hospices,refuges and mental health services should be fully should be fully supported by the state In 2016 we spent £13.6bn on overseas aid Why?

You don't have to be an 'Economist' to see this truth.

Can we finally have a serious public debate about the policies that treat housing as a financial asset rather than a societal necessity?

Sadly, the excessive and under availability of housing is often ignored as a factor because of ideological opposition to construction of sicial housing.

no its not, its the concept ya know it..

Yet unbelievably, Local Authorities have hundreds of houses available for 'child '(shaving supplies will be provided) immigrants .. Que

Shocking statistic

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