Scale of homelessness crisis this Christmas laid bare, as figures reveal ANOTHER rise under Tories
“This is a direct result of ten years of the Conservatives.”
“This is a direct result of ten years of the Conservatives.”
Over 350,000 people applied to register to vote yesterday.
“What’s troubling is that the likely future Prime Minister will probably care even less about social housing than his two predecessors.”
“The government’s shameful legacy of damaging welfare cuts continues to contribute to this avoidable crisis.”
New proposals to tackle ‘anti-social behaviour’ appear to target homeless people in Manchester – leading to widespread anger.
The Act has noble aims. But it is a sticking plaster for a problem of the Tories’ making.
The system pioneered by the Tories is either broken or was set up to punish those most in need of state support.
The rise in the number of ‘intentionally homeless’ passes the buck for a housing crisis driven by policy failure, writes an anonymous housing worker.
Only a coherent package of reforms can end rough sleeping
Welfare sanctions don’t ‘motivate’ homeless people – they grind them down as a message to the rest of us.