Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
by DanBC on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:50PM
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The UK has a population of 60 million people. There are only about 4500 rough sleepers.
This figure has risen every year for the past 6 years, and it's likely to keep rising. Removing the single room supplement / imposing the bedroom tax, freezing housing benefit, cuts to local authorities (and thus cuts to drug and alcohol services, and to some mental health provision, and to some housing provision) all mean that rough sleeping is going to increase.
And that number doesn't include people who are in temporary accommodation or vulnerably housed or sofa surfing.
This figure has risen every year for the past 6 years, and it's likely to keep rising. Removing the single room supplement / imposing the bedroom tax, freezing housing benefit, cuts to local authorities (and thus cuts to drug and alcohol services, and to some mental health provision, and to some housing provision) all mean that rough sleeping is going to increase.
And that number doesn't include people who are in temporary accommodation or vulnerably housed or sofa surfing.