Families And Disabled People 'Hit Worse By Rising Homelessness'

Families and disabled people have been disproportionately hit by increasing homelessness. John Healey, the shadow housing minister, said that while homelessness generally had gone up 41% since 2010, people who might expect extra care from the government were doing even worse. Healey based his claim on figures from the CLG showing that from 2010 to 2016 the overall number of households accepted as being homeless by local authorities in England went up from 42,390 to almost 60,000. But the increase was disproportionately high for homeless households classed as vulnerable through mental illness, where homelessness went up 53%, and for those classed as vulnerable through physical disability, where it rose 49%. Read more on the Guardian website.