This is devastating & entirely preventable. This is the picture in London but rough sleeping is rising across England. We badly need affordable homes & specialist support services, yet the response from Govt is to criminalise rough sleeping through the Criminal Justice Bill
🚨 #SWEP has now been activated in #London
Contact your local council to find out what local provisions may be in place.
No-one should be left outside in such treacherous cold weather!
Rural England has seen a 40% increase in homelessness over the past five years, a British non-profit organization said on Tuesday...
https://t.co/ZoMJPDvmQz
Warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Christmas 🎄
In Bethlehem, Christmas is cancelled in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers & sisters being killed in Gaza.
Please remember Gaza this festive period & support calls for an immediate ceasefire & an end to the occupation.
The Vagrancy Act is an outdated piece of legislation that, our research suggests, disproportionally targets black people.
The Vagrancy Act turns 200 next year, and we call on the government to end the cruelty caused by it.
Read more here: https://t.co/90O3H8fvty
We sent FOI requests to 35 police forces in England and Wales and we found 8% of people arrested under the Vagrancy Act are Black – twice as high as the proportion of Black people in the total population.
Read the full story here: https://t.co/2K9mjyBc3r
🔊 Major new research from @crisis_uk reveals the inhumanity faced by people sleeping rough in England.
It comes from one of the most detailed surveys of people’s experiences while sleeping rough undertaken in England in recent years.
The Criminal Justice Bill introduces laws that criminalises homelessness. This was meant to be thing of the past. It was wonderful to see MPs speak out against this. If you haven't signed our petition against replacing one bad law with another you can here https://t.co/IN73EBJxas
Nearly 160,000 people are living in hidden, often overcrowded and sometimes dangerous bedsit-style accommodation across England, analysis has found...
https://t.co/iFuepBnUsD
🚨The highest quarterly number of rough sleepers has been counted in London since records began
Between July and September, 4,068 people were found to be sleeping on the streets...
https://t.co/MYFvCXeP5m
Housing benefit desperately needs to be unfrozen to support people trapped in homelessness, even government ministers agree. But according to @BBCMBuchanan, Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt is still resisting. Help us continue to make the case for this change https://t.co/kS1EEoOuMu
Suella Braverman has whipped-up more hate and division than perhaps any other MP.
From claiming there's a migrant "invasion", to saying sleeping on the streets is a "lifestyle choice", she's the one stoking hate in our communities.
The sooner she's out of government the better.