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Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis.

Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022.

The figures also show the number of people – including children – in temporary accommodation hit record levels in 2023, triggering warnings of a housing “emergency”.

Mike Amesbury, the shadow minister for homelessness, said: “These stats reveal a growing Tory housing emergency being felt by families in every part of the country. Over the past 14 years, the Tories have taken a wrecking ball to the foundation of a secure home, leaving Britain facing a homelessness epidemic.

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[–] FlyingSquid 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As awful as that is, based on your link, at least the children are all being put in a place where they have meals and a roof over their heads.

There was a high school girl who came into the library where my wife worked who slept in a tent out in the woods with her alcoholic father (there was no indication he was sexually abusing her). We bought her another tent so she could have some privacy, but that was all we could do. She walked for miles every morning to get to school. I felt so bad for her.

[–] breadsmasher 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

why even live in a tent if you also camp miles away from where you need to go every day

[–] FlyingSquid 34 points 4 months ago

Because they can't afford a home and homeless people get driven out of their encampments into the woods outside of town by the cops.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I imagine cops would forcibly remove homeless tents near nice neighborhoods, which is usually where schools are located.

[–] Ultragigagigantic 8 points 4 months ago

There are only so many places the unhoused can go without their shit getting fucked with

[–] Melvin_Ferd -1 points 4 months ago

miles also isn't really far though. I walk miles to go get a freezy on a sunday