Rough sleepers in Oxford are being asked to prove a link to the city, or leave. The city council says that Oxford had become a popular destination for rough sleepers and it has had to adopt the ‘reconnections’ policy to cut the number of homeless in the streets. Almost 1,000 people have so far been asked to prove their links to the area, and around a fifth have been sent home. Figures show on a typical night there are more than 170 people living in hostels in the city and about another dozen sleeping rough.