The Damaging cost of a tory Government

Do you understand how the majority of homeless become homeless ? It has nothing to do with having not enough accommodation but they once had accommodation but been evicted due to rent arrears. And with the added cost of bedroom tax and cost of living more and more people are struggling to pay rent

In London the majority of rough sleepers are foreigners - if you want to cut rough sleeping reduce immigration.

My opinion on the opening post, either a very bad wind up or someone who is not well informed and walking about with their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears.

Firstly there is no such thing as a " Bedroom Tax " it was an attempt to quite rightly IMO to try a get lone occupants living in social housing with more than one bedroom to downsize by reducing a benefit

( taxpayers money " ) to encourage them to move into a smaller social housing accommodation and free up larger accommodation for a family on the Councils waiting lists, some people have been on those waiting list for years.

The majority of people living on the streets have an addiction of some sort drink and drugs or both, and or are mentally ill cannot cope with life, others just cannot afford to rent a bedsit let alone pay their bills, out of work or unable to get work , they have to resort to crime and begging to pay for their drugs and drink, if mentally ill they can only be committed to a mental ward for a short period of time if there is any place available, back on the streets within weeks.

This is not a new sorry state of affairs its been happening for years and years.

When WW2 ended the Cities that had been heavily bombed were short of accommodation people in the cities were living in Victorian slums or packed into a rented room, even when Social Housing was being built in the 50's and 60's there was not enough to go round , I remember Prefabs in the 70's in North London being lived in long past their sell by date, the size of London population has gone up since then now over 8 million people.

Due to the size of the population which is rising all the time every day hundreds landing on our shores every week adding to the existing acute shortage of affordable social housing, we cannot build fast enough to keep up with demand, renting in the private sector costs up to three thousand pounds a month in London, Freedom of movement also added to the problem not enough accommodation, that probably why many voted to leave the EU

Is it any wonder the cost of accommodation has gone through the roof, my grandkids may never be in a position to buy their own home certainly not within London.

Our infrastructure is IMHO close to collapsing the NHS, Education, Public Transport it cannot cope with the demand on it 24/7, there is not enough room on this small island to accommodate so many people,

Something i perhaps did not stress enough in my post although i did mention it was the extensive measures undertaken by the council during COVID to eradicate the rough sleeping problem. While the travelodge and IBIS budget shithole - the latter now used to house rubber boat invaders - were barred from trading, the council and social services and third sector went to extreme lengths to offer the homeless a place off the street in them, and help from medical and social services.

Literally everyone was offered a helping hand. Many took it and have not gone back to what they were reduced to. The only ones who remain in tented drug fuelled homelessness rejected the help offered. And that is why i say openly if they freeze or spice themselves to death then sod them.