Thursday, 10 March 2016
Austerity fuels homelessness
The Guardian examines the rise in homelessness. Across England the figures have doubled in the last six years. In Manchester, homelessness has risen tenfold and in Bristol, it is nine times higher than when Labour left power, says the paper. It is estimated that there are 3,600 people sleeping on the streets nightly, and the resurgence of the problem has worried campaigners who had hoped it was near to being eliminated.
