#rough-sleeping — Public Fediverse posts
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The charity @crisis-uk.bsky.social says 'councils are increasingly competing with each other to not help children rough sleeping, which is something CEO, @mattdownie.bsky.social, thought we'd never see'.
Report credit: @itvnews.bsky.social #Homeless #Crisis #RoughSleeping
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-24/councils-leave-children-as-young-as-four-sleeping-on-the-streets-itv-news-finds -
England now has a plan to end homelessness – here’s how to test whether it will work.
The UK government has published a new homelessness strategy for England.
The strategy speaks to different forms of homelessness, from rough sleeping to more hidden forms of homelessness, like sofa surfing.
How do we know what works?
#England #Homelessness #Policy #UK #Government #RoughSleeping #SofaSurfing
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Some good news!
The Government has confirmed it will repeal the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rough-sleeping-to-be-decriminalised-after-200-years
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Our Hubs are open 7-days a week for warmth, information, support and care.
Glasgow Access Hub, 74-80 Brown Street, Glasgow, G2 8PD
Edinburgh Support Hub, 22 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AF
To help us provide safe places, support and hope, please visit https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/safeplacessupporthope
#homelessness #edinburgh #glasgow #scotland #charity #homeless #roughsleeping
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from Simon Community Scotland:
FREEZING WEATHER CONDITIONS
Please call our helplines Glasgow 0800 027 7466 or Edinburgh 0808 178 2323 if you see someone on the streets who you would like us to check on. Our Street Teams will get to them as soon as possible.
Your call could save a life.
#homelessness #edinburgh #glasgow #scotland #charity #homeless #roughsleeping
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Big Issue founder Lord Bird storms out of rough sleeping inquiry
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John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople, on Moses’ offer to be blotted out for the sin of an unruly people in in Exodus 32:32. Chrysostom calls Moses great.
Today, do we have leaders calling for the blotting out of people for (very false and very petty) evidences of unruliness?
Whom do you call great?
#christian #roughsleeping #studentactivism #redeemed #questioning
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Evicted grandma forced to sleep rough
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjq5qxlgy39o
#Homelessness
#Elderly
#MiddleAged
#RoughSleeping
#Thurrock
#NoFaultEvictions
#NoFaultEvictionBan
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The number of “no fault” evictions in London increased 52 percent in the last year — more than five times the rate seen in the rest of England and Wales, a City Hall analysis reveals.
Sadiq Khan said the data showed how the Government’s failure to ban the evictions — also known as section 21 notices — had been a “huge betrayal”.
Section 21 notices are used by landlords to evict tenants with two months’ notice and without any reason needing to be given, and are a significant factor in the increase in people becoming homeless and sleeping on the streets.
According to the latest Government data, there were 11,880 of these “no fault” eviction claims in London in the year to the end of March 2024, up 52 percent from 7,834 in the year to March 2023.
This rise compares to an increase of nine percent in the rest of England and Wales over the same period, City Hall said.
“The Government’s failure to pass the Renters (Reform) Bill before the dissolution of Parliament today is a huge betrayal of London’s 2.7mn private renters, who are left with the threat of eviction hanging over their heads,” said Mayor Khan.
“These latest stats from City Hall are shocking and the unacceptable delay to this vital bill will leave even more renters in the capital at unnecessary risk of housing insecurity and homelessness.
“I’m doing all I can to build a better, fairer London for everyone by supporting tenants, but I cannot act alone. Renters’ rights must be a national priority and ‘no fault’ evictions banned for good.”
The Conservatives pledged to deliver the ban in their 2019 manifesto, with Housing Secretary Michael Gove promising as recently as February this year that the ban would be in place before the next election.
The Renters (Reform) Bill, intended to deliver the ban, was first introduced in the House of Commons in May last year. But its progress was delayed by several Tory MPs who wanted to strengthen protections for landlords, who they feared would sell up.
Following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a July 4 election, it emerged that the necessary legislation would not be passed during the “wash up” period before Parliament was dissolved.
Deputy PM Oliver Dowden told the Local Democracy Reporting Service last week: “As happens at the end of the Parliament, when you announce a general election, there are large amounts of legislation on the books. We’ve only got two days to conclude it all.”
He added: “It just hasn’t been possible to get this legislation through in the ‘wash up’ period.”
He said the Government had a strong record on housing overall, with 2.5mn new homes built nationally since 2010.
In total, more than 30,000 renting households in London have faced a “no fault” eviction claim since 2019.
#GreaterLondonAuthority #homelessness #housing #RentersReformBill #roughSleeping #SadiqKhan #Section21
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To Rep. #BriannaTitone: My #Story of #Transgender #HousingInsecurity.
I #wokeup this morning to a memory of #sleeping in my #car. It would be another year before we lived in a place that felt physically and emotionally safe for us — as a #transgender, #interracial #married #couple.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Colorado #Homelessness #HousingInsecurity #RoughSleeping #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #BlackMastodon
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#thurrockcouncil #heididodson #nofaulteviction #homelessness #bbc #roughsleeping #sleepingrough #uk The words I’d use to describe Thurrock Council aren’t printable here. I hope Heidi gets help, and Thurrock Council get the negative publicity they deserve…
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Ben Jennings on #RishiSunak’s plans to crack down on #RoughSleeping – cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/11/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunaks-plans-to-crack-down-on-rough-sleeping-cartoon
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Homeless women using t-shirts and old menstrual products for periods | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-women-periods-rough-sleeping-b2526448.html#Homelessness
#Homeless
#PeriodProducts
#RoughSleeping
#SubstitutesForPeriodProducts
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Nearly 2,500 arrests in England and Wales since 2019 under Vagrancy Act | Homelessness | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/07/homeless-people-arrested-vagrancy-act-england-wales-police#VagrancyAct
#Arrests
#KickingSomeoneWhenTheyAreDown
#Homeless
#Homelessness
#VagrancyAct1824
#Police
#CriminalJusticeBill
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Ministers face Tory revolt over plans to criminalise rough sleeping | Homelessness | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/01/ministers-face-tory-revolt-over-plans-to-criminalise-rough-sleeping#Tories
#Homelessness
#CriminalisingHomelessness
#RoughSleeping
#Hollinrake
#LibDem
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Clutching morphine and sheltering in a bus stop: the NHS patients sent from hospital to the street | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-nhs-hospital-discharge-beds-rough-sleeping-b2507850.html#NHS
#RoughSleeping
#Morphine
#Hospitals
#Prisons
#AsylumSeekersHotels
#Amesbury
#Homelesness
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Criminal Justice Bill: Woman tells of ‘terrifying’ torment of sleeping rough from the age of 16 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-woman-criminal-justice-bill-housing-b2506636.html#RoughSleeping
#Police
#CriminalJusticeBill
#Homeless
#Homelessness
#Women
#Violence
#GenderBasedViolence
#DomesticViolence
#DomesticAbuse
#Dickensian
#CriminalisingHomelessness
#EmploymentWithCriminalRecordForHomelessness
#Crisis
#SocialHousing
#VagrancyAct
#Moran
#MentalHealth
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Number of people #SleepingRough in #England rises for second year running
Increase means government will fail to meet #ManifestoPromise to end #RoughSleeping before #GeneralElection
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New rough sleeping powers will continue to criminalise homeless, ministers told | Watch
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/new-rough-sleeping-powers-will-continue-to-criminalise-homeless-ministers-told/vi-BB1iVA3t?cvid=5f7dae06be344a6bd6e9e40be8860478&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=11#RoughSleeping
#CriminalisingRoughSleeping
#CriminalisingHomelessness
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#RoughSleeping in #London up 23% to highest level in a decade
City hall counts 4,389 people sleeping on streets in fourth quarter of 2023, with mayor accusing No 10 of ‘turning a blind eye’
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/31/rough-sleeping-in-london-up-to-highest-level-in-a-decade
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The lifesaver £30 Sleep Pod warms the homeless in freezing temperatures
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/the-lifesaver-30-sleep-pod-warms-the-homeless-in-freezing-temperatures/ar-BB1hm8Mk?cvid=1003aa929265454da7d98879087a94f4&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6 -
📬 Der Criminal Justice Bill und die Auswirkungen auf Piraterieseiten
#Netzpolitik #3DDruckerSchusswaffenvorlagen #CriminalJusticeBill #FlawlessIPTV #großbritannien #HouseofCommons #JamesCleverly #RoughSleeping https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d79460 -
Rough sleeping: Black people disproportionately arrested under Vagrancy Act | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rough-sleeping-vagrancy-act-homelessness-generation-rent/ -
Urgent hunt for family ‘sleeping rough’ in freezing temperatures with toddler
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@strypey I was watching the 4pm claiming of #roughsleeping spots in #Wellington #CBD - architectural alcoves, spots next to warm power transformers, extract air outlets and assorted other places. We should design more rest spaces in our places.
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Who says that the millions spent on road building in Aotearoa is at the expense of building enough public housing? Here we see both...
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Suella Braverman plan to stop tents for homeless people junked from Kings Speech by No 10
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/suella-braverman-plan-to-stop-tents-for-homeless-people-junked-from-kings-speech-by-no-10/ar-AA1jvMIA?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bf10b5a78af149d3a5aa207471fde5f9&ei=7&fbclid=IwAR2FGGJdcoghTYcfOzvSCfzjH-OjkN3xWFrFat-cAKeQ2CjYs8x5puyqXXU -
Suella Braverman accused of ‘trying to get fired’ with ‘dangerous’ Palestine remarks | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-sunak-palestine-protest-b2442988.html#Palestinians
#Braverman
#Sunak
#Warsi
#ProPalestinianMarches
#ProPalestinianProtests
#BBC
#Newsnight
#CultureWars
#Divisive
#Patriots
#Arsonists
#MET
#Police
#Starmer
#Chalk
#RoughSleeping
#Homelessness
#Grieve
#Mandelson
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Compassion, not cruelty, is the answer to rough sleeping – we have the proof in Milton Keynes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/rough-sleeping-milton-keynes-rehousing-suella-braverman?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I know which I choose - compassion. Cruella chooses criminality.
The Milton Keynes initiative looks brilliant and bravo to them. The Home Secretary on the other hand looks like she’s dog whistling to distract from something bigger. A standard populist tactic.
I wonder what?
#homelessness #roughsleeping #homesecretary #CruellaBraverman
