The number of people living in overcrowded homes in England will soar 15 per cent to 2.6 million by 2011 as unemployment and repossessions bite, the National Housing Federation warned today. It says an extra 350,000 people would be living in overcrowded conditions in the next two years, exacerbated by the economic slowdown which has
A report commissioned by the Howard League for Penal Reform has called for a reduction in the number of prisoners and the closing of some jails. The report said that prison and probation funding should be diverted to tackling the causes of crime, and suggested that short-term prison sentences be replaced with community-based responses. The
And in London mayor Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to halve overcrowding in the capital by 2016. In the latest draft of his housing strategy he promised to cut overcrowding in the social housing sector and to deliver more family sized affordable homes, and added that it will make London the first city in Britain