How do you help small minority of rough sleepers who refuse help? I live in a small town but there are quite a few rough sleepers. We have a homeless cafe and charity and they regularly visit and speak to the rough sleepers but sometimes the response is "they don't want our help" 🤷🏻
Burnham has given a Convicted Fraudster, a top job in govt,and they have changed the rules to allow it.
Tells you all you need to know!!!
Imagine if it was a Tory PM who did that😂😂
Mental health is bad because people now live in crime ridden slums, people are looking over their shoulders 24/7 and Liebour wants to let out thousands of criminals ..insane.
As someone who worked in social housing for 60 years the reason we have rough sleeping is we had so many houses in 1996 we shut down all the night shelters or common lodging houses and forced the residents into flats to get rid of the surplus.
Up to the late 1980s every city and large town would have what was called a common lodging house where you could get a bed, washing facilities and even meals at a very low price. I was tasked with modernizing of these in the mid 1970s and I admit they were pretty rough but they were there for anyone who needed them. Even then the need for them was diminishing the job file I had included a confidential report showing a declining need for both Council and Salvation Army shelters
Manchester Common Lodging House was shut down around 1990 I don't know what became of it but Salford's was converted into upmarket housing and Birmingham's became a hotel.
Then Blair threw open the gates to the world in 1996 and when you get 400 Afghans coming to a medium sized town at a month's notice any surplus vanishes pretty rapidly.
The same Liebour Government who have just taken rough sleeping and begging off the Statute Books so people cannot be moved on or prosecuted for begging. Could this have more to do with the fact that the numbers of people rough sleeping and begging is exploding?
Manchester has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the UK, with approximately one in 74 people in the city lacking a permanent home according to per capita data from Shelter
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Tells you all you need to know!!!
Imagine if it was a Tory PM who did that😂😂
Up to the late 1980s every city and large town would have what was called a common lodging house where you could get a bed, washing facilities and even meals at a very low price. I was tasked with modernizing of these in the mid 1970s and I admit they were pretty rough but they were there for anyone who needed them. Even then the need for them was diminishing the job file I had included a confidential report showing a declining need for both Council and Salvation Army shelters
Manchester Common Lodging House was shut down around 1990 I don't know what became of it but Salford's was converted into upmarket housing and Birmingham's became a hotel.
Then Blair threw open the gates to the world in 1996 and when you get 400 Afghans coming to a medium sized town at a month's notice any surplus vanishes pretty rapidly.