The number of people sleeping rough in London has risen
by 16 per cent, including a 90 per cent surge in the number of Romanians on the
streets, according to new figures. Almost 7,600 people were seen sleeping on
London’s streets by outreach workers in 2014-15, compared with 6,508 the year
before. The official figures showed almost 57 per cent of rough sleepers were
foreign nationals, with a third of the total coming from Central and Eastern
Europe. Romanians were the single biggest nationality, after British,
representing 19 per cent of the total, the equivalent of 1,388 people. This was
up 90 per cent from the previous year when there were just 730 Romanian rough
sleepers. Read more on the Evening Standard website.
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