Wealth inequality goes up, neoliberalism is allowed to run rampant with no end in sight (even with a Labour gov) and this will become more commonplace.
We are all a few missed paydays away from this.
But a rise in the number of people sleeping rough who originate from abroad – in the months after Home Office efforts to clear the asylum backlog – has seen the proportion of UK rough sleepers drop from 48.5% a year ago to 43.7% at the start of this year.
Non-UK nationals now make up almost 57% of London’s rough sleeping population – a 9% increase on the proportion in the same quarter last year, and a 48% increase in non-UK, non-European Economic Area nationals over the same period
Khan’s London
It’s become way more visible. A tent round every corner, while homes, shops and offices sit empty.
This is all downstream of a woeful undersupply of housing, enabled by an vetocratic planning system that disproportionately empowers incumbent homeowners (i.e. the old).
We need to triple our building rate. We need to build upwards, matching the gentle density seen in comparable European cities like Barcelona, Amsterdam and Paris. We need to build infrastructure to match.
But this all starts with our awful, draconian planning system. Any politician that doesn’t seek to make this fundamental change – at a national or local level – needs to be voted out.
This is no small mountain to climb, it will be hideously unpopular amongst the old. But young people of all political persuasions must unite to get it done.
Anybody come across a study on the impacts of humanitarian aid on homelessness rates?
>Non-UK nationals now make up almost 57% of London’s rough sleeping population – a 9% increase on the proportion in the same quarter last year, and a 48% increase in non-UK, non-European Economic Area nationals over the same period.
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>The number of people experiencing street homelessness from Africa has almost trebled in that time from 261 to 661 while numbers from Asia have almost doubled from 248 to 434.
People are choosing to come to London knowing they have nowhere to live purely because it’s a good place to beg, work illegally or wait until granted a visa to stay in the country through being unable to deport.
Revolution time please!
Wealth gap too large, unaffordable place to live… crime ridden and unlawful bog hole.
That will be me soon… rental market in London is brutal
Rough sleeping? Is that the new way of saying homelessness?
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Wealth inequality goes up, neoliberalism is allowed to run rampant with no end in sight (even with a Labour gov) and this will become more commonplace.
We are all a few missed paydays away from this.
But a rise in the number of people sleeping rough who originate from abroad – in the months after Home Office efforts to clear the asylum backlog – has seen the proportion of UK rough sleepers drop from 48.5% a year ago to 43.7% at the start of this year.
Non-UK nationals now make up almost 57% of London’s rough sleeping population – a 9% increase on the proportion in the same quarter last year, and a 48% increase in non-UK, non-European Economic Area nationals over the same period
Khan’s London
It’s become way more visible. A tent round every corner, while homes, shops and offices sit empty.
This is all downstream of a woeful undersupply of housing, enabled by an vetocratic planning system that disproportionately empowers incumbent homeowners (i.e. the old).
We need to triple our building rate. We need to build upwards, matching the gentle density seen in comparable European cities like Barcelona, Amsterdam and Paris. We need to build infrastructure to match.
But this all starts with our awful, draconian planning system. Any politician that doesn’t seek to make this fundamental change – at a national or local level – needs to be voted out.
This is no small mountain to climb, it will be hideously unpopular amongst the old. But young people of all political persuasions must unite to get it done.
Anybody come across a study on the impacts of humanitarian aid on homelessness rates?
>Non-UK nationals now make up almost 57% of London’s rough sleeping population – a 9% increase on the proportion in the same quarter last year, and a 48% increase in non-UK, non-European Economic Area nationals over the same period.
>
>The number of people experiencing street homelessness from Africa has almost trebled in that time from 261 to 661 while numbers from Asia have almost doubled from 248 to 434.
People are choosing to come to London knowing they have nowhere to live purely because it’s a good place to beg, work illegally or wait until granted a visa to stay in the country through being unable to deport.
Revolution time please!
Wealth gap too large, unaffordable place to live… crime ridden and unlawful bog hole.
That will be me soon… rental market in London is brutal
Rough sleeping? Is that the new way of saying homelessness?
Addressing rough sleeping in the city.