Britain Goes Back in Time as Homelessness Reaches Victorian Era Levels
SputnikNews.com
31.03.2016
Homelessness in Britain is expected to reach levels previously witnessed in Victorian times. 275,000 people sought help from their local authority to find a roof over their head in 2015, an increase of 34 percent since 2010, according to charity Crisis.
The 1906 Departmental Committee on Vagrancy suggested there were between 20,000 and 30,000 so-called permanent vagrants in England and Wales. The modern day equivalent to that figure is the 75,000 people relying on hostels and 7,581 people sleeping rough in London in 2015, according to figures from the Greater London Authority.
Academic Luke Davies, who researches the history of homelessness at University College London, suggests that the Conservative Government’s new Housing and Planning Bill is going to widen the social inequality gap even more, leaving society’s most vulnerable people without shelter.
Recent homelessness figures show that the number of households registering as homeless in 2016 rose by six percent in England — and 10 percent in London, compared with last year.
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