Research from Homeless Link has shown an increasing number of people sleeping rough on the streets of London are coming from central or eastern Europe. The proportion of those from the eight accession countries sleeping rough has increased from 18 per cent in December 2007 to 25 per cent now. Analysis shows that while the
Following yesterday’s Homeless Link report into rough sleeping in London, the mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to end street homelessness by 2012. There has been a decline in the number of rough sleepers throughout the country, but London is the only region that has failed to meet the government’s 1998 commitment to reduce numbers by
Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are living in the UK in a ‘twilight zone’ of extreme poverty, no housing and no right to work. A report from the refugee charity Pafras says on average failed asylum seekers were surviving on £7.65 per week, but the majority lived on less than £5. The charity called
The number of rough sleepers in London has risen by 15 per cent in the last year, fuelled by an increase in Eastern Europeans who have lost their jobs and now make up one in seven of those living on the street. According to the figures from Broadway more than 4,600 rough sleepers were counted
Homeless charity, Crisis, has been investigating the experience single rough sleepers face when seeking help from local councils. Most were discouraged from filing in formal applications to register as homeless, and many were deterred from even seeing a housing officer. A spokesperson from the charity said that there was widespread practice of councils using the
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
The mental health problems faced by rough sleepers have reached a ‘critical level’ following a rise in the homelessness rate, St Mungo’s has found. Among its clients, 40 per cent were diagnosed with depression and 22 per cent were diagnosed with schizophrenia, which St Mungo’s called ‘the tip of the iceberg’. It warned that the
St Mungoâs is seeking youth workersâ views on mental health and homelessness for a report. It said the proportion of homeless people with mental health problems remain static, at around a third, despite a reduction in the number of street homeless in the past decade, and warned the government would fail to hit its target