Council Boards Up Area ‘To Keep Homeless People Away’

Westminster council has boarded up an area in the London borough to keep away rough sleepers, with campaigners warning that local authorities and police are pushing homeless people “out of sight and out of mind”. Large white hoarding has appeared outside McDonald’s in Victoria Street, which homeless people and campaigners say is part of a wider effort to remove rough sleepers from the borough with the largest street population in England. Rough sleeping in London reached an all-time high of 8,855 people for the 2018-19 calendar year, an 18% annual increase. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/19/westminster-council-boards-up-area-to-keep-homeless-people-away