Over 50,000 Families Shipped Out Of London in the Past Three Years

More than 50,000 families have been silently shipped out of London in the past three years, an investigation by The Independent reveals. Leaked documents expose the true scale of the “social cleansing” taking place across the capital as a result of welfare cuts and soaring rents. The figures show an unprecedented number of families who cannot afford to find homes in their local area being uprooted from their neighbourhoods and dumped further and further away from the capital, cut off from their relatives and support networks.  Official figures – which the authorities have previously refused to publish – show the problem is much worse than campaigners feared. They show that councils are currently moving homeless mothers and children out of their boroughs at a rate of close to 500 families a week, with numbers continuing to rise. Read more on the Independent website.