Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Rough Sleeping Soars By 15%

The number of people sleeping rough on England's streets soared by 15% last year and now stands at a shocking 4,751. The rise to autumn 2017 is the eighth in a row and rough sleeping has more than doubled under the Tories since 2010. Almost a quarter of all rough sleepers (1,137) are in London, where the number rose by 173 people last year or 18%. Four-fifths were UK nationals, 653 were women and 370 were under 25. The shocking figures are derived from actual counts of people on the streets and "intelligence-driven estimates" on a single given night. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rough-sleeping-soars-15-almost-11911565

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