Can’t have a homelessness problem if you eliminate the homeless. Disgraceful.
Who would have thought that a government that cut back on every social service to the absolute bone, gone out of their way to promote austerity measures that abolished help and support programs, made the benefits system needlessly unfriendly and complex and done next to nothing to help with any of the crisis would have a knock on effect on the poorest and most vulnerable members of society?
I wonder how many unfortunately died from COVID. It must not have been easy to do “remain indoors” for the bad months in the last years, since you know they are either on the street or at best in pretty crowded shelters.
This covers the lockdowns when the government set out to house all homeless people. It makes me wonder how much of this is a delayed impact of those people temporarily being brought into support services, or the psychological impact of knowing that we proved ending homelessness is achievable but chose not to
I’m sure also that the hold on evictions during lockdowns meaning that services were overloaded by a sudden influx of homeless people (on top of already struggling services) means that a lot of people were unable to get support in any form.
I slept rough in London in 2020 for a few nights. I had/have a roof at Yorkshire coast. I was having problems with a toxic family member, reacted in the wrong way and left town. Nearly died after ending up in the Thames for 90 minutes on the 3rd morning. Mine was not drug related, I would have been voluntarily homeless had I not ended up in hospital. Few years on I’ve been to London this year and booked a hotel and had an ok time, went feeling better than time before and got back home safe, had sausage chips and beans on Thames across from Lambeth Palace instead of a swim! Lol
I mean they did promise to cut all homeless people in half by 2025…
I’m housing a homeless friend right now and have been for 4 months. In a flat share. And our landlord is unaware. The avenues for support are quite frankly disgustingly underfunded and intentionally over bureaucratic to put people off. I cannot imagine how she would navigate the system if she didn’t have access to a temporary roof, electricity, internet and water.
This is something we all should be extremely concerned about even if you are not currently homeless or know anyone who is. Homelessness can be sudden and affect almost anyone. It could be you next. All it takes is a bad incident and if you don’t have the resources to weather the storm you might find yourself sleeping on a sofa or worse still on the street.
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Elections won’t do anything. We need electoral reform. Otherwise keep watching or living through undesired societal conditions.
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Can’t have a homelessness problem if you eliminate the homeless. Disgraceful.
Who would have thought that a government that cut back on every social service to the absolute bone, gone out of their way to promote austerity measures that abolished help and support programs, made the benefits system needlessly unfriendly and complex and done next to nothing to help with any of the crisis would have a knock on effect on the poorest and most vulnerable members of society?
I wonder how many unfortunately died from COVID. It must not have been easy to do “remain indoors” for the bad months in the last years, since you know they are either on the street or at best in pretty crowded shelters.
This covers the lockdowns when the government set out to house all homeless people. It makes me wonder how much of this is a delayed impact of those people temporarily being brought into support services, or the psychological impact of knowing that we proved ending homelessness is achievable but chose not to
I’m sure also that the hold on evictions during lockdowns meaning that services were overloaded by a sudden influx of homeless people (on top of already struggling services) means that a lot of people were unable to get support in any form.
I slept rough in London in 2020 for a few nights. I had/have a roof at Yorkshire coast. I was having problems with a toxic family member, reacted in the wrong way and left town. Nearly died after ending up in the Thames for 90 minutes on the 3rd morning. Mine was not drug related, I would have been voluntarily homeless had I not ended up in hospital. Few years on I’ve been to London this year and booked a hotel and had an ok time, went feeling better than time before and got back home safe, had sausage chips and beans on Thames across from Lambeth Palace instead of a swim! Lol
I mean they did promise to cut all homeless people in half by 2025…
I’m housing a homeless friend right now and have been for 4 months. In a flat share. And our landlord is unaware. The avenues for support are quite frankly disgustingly underfunded and intentionally over bureaucratic to put people off. I cannot imagine how she would navigate the system if she didn’t have access to a temporary roof, electricity, internet and water.
This is something we all should be extremely concerned about even if you are not currently homeless or know anyone who is. Homelessness can be sudden and affect almost anyone. It could be you next. All it takes is a bad incident and if you don’t have the resources to weather the storm you might find yourself sleeping on a sofa or worse still on the street.
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Elections won’t do anything. We need electoral reform. Otherwise keep watching or living through undesired societal conditions.