{"id":235126,"date":"2025-07-03T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235126\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:13:08","slug":"londons-streets-through-the-eyes-of-those-who-slept-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235126\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s streets through the eyes of those who slept on them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/news\/housing\/rough-sleeping-london-chain-2025\/#:~:text=A%20total%20of%2013%2C231%20people,19%25%20in%20a%20year%20alone.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rough sleeping in London hits record highs<\/a>, one social enterprise is offering a different way to see the city, through the eyes of people who\u2019ve experienced homelessness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unseentours.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unseen Tours<\/a> trains and employs formerly homeless or vulnerably housed Londoners to lead guided walking tours through the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to provide paid work, boost confidence, and challenge public perceptions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/tag\/homeless-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homelessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 13,000 people were recorded sleeping rough in the capital,\u00a0a 10% rise on the previous year, and a 63% increase since 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But on the streets of Borough, Shoreditch, Southwark and beyond, Unseen Tours guides are reframing the story, sharing not just local history, but their own.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Feature image: Louisa Woolf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As rough sleeping in London hits record highs, one social enterprise is offering a different way to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,91971,72346,257,16,15,28545],"class_list":{"0":"post-235126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-homelesness","12":"tag-homeless-charities","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-walking-tour"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114790191030405856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}