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It's sad that it's come to this:
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This may be homelessness-related:
There used to be a large camper van (not sure that's the right word, as it was very long) parked in my street about fifteen years ago. People were living in it outside the (seemingly overcrowded) house where the rest of their family/associates lived. They'd also tapped the electricity supply to a lamppost. I don't know what happened, as one day it had just disappeared.
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Here's a report about the eviction of some homeless people from an underpass outside Parliament:
The blog referred to in the article is here:
https://earlofwestminster.home.blog/2019/08/09/09-08-19/
It sounds as if some people had found a safe temporary solution but have now been thwarted.
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I went to a vegan comedy benefit tonight, with only female comedians raising money for No Means No. Could you get any more woke? Apart from the one whose entire act was about how she had to live in East London for a bit and the fact that homeless people were there and she had to look at them and sometimes talk to them, before her husband earned them enough money to move somewhere better. Fucking douchebag.
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The medical crisis caused by homelessness:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/22/working-ae-see-sharp-end-homelessness-crisis-uk
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Yes, as she says, homeless people often try to access medical services via the emergency route.
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Some attractive housing options:
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The Guardian has been doing a series on individual stories of homeless people who have died in the recent past. Here's one:
More here:
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This seems to be a similar development to what has been going on in the US for much longer:
I'm sure it's lots of fun in the summer, but would be pretty miserable in winter. I'd consider it a form of homelessness, even if by choice. Obviously, if you have money and a job, you probably wouldn't be that likely to get on the spiral into full-blown homelessness, but I can well imagine that some people would be more likely to get on it.
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I very much hope this succeeds:
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Some interesting research here on the link between homelessness and traumatic brain injury:
An unanswered question, say experts, is whether the brain injury causes the homelessness or if it is the other way round. “The relationship between homelessness and TBI could function both ways – TBI could increase the risk of homelessness, and homelessness could increase the risk of TBI,” said Jehannine Austin from the British Columbia mental health and substance use services research institute in Canada, where the study was carried out.
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I haven't seen those, but when I see tents they always remind me of Cardboard City under Waterloo Bridge in the 90s.
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Here's another article in the Guardian's series of portraits of homeless people who died on the streets. This one is very wide-ranging in describing the situation in Manchester:
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280,000 people homeless at Christmas:
More households homeless:
The number of households considered newly homeless or at risk of becoming so has increased by 11.4% across England in the past year, according to government figures, a rise of almost 7,000 households.
It's seemingly not the Big Issue any more, as there are so many other issues, and people generally are so squeezed.
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The central London building I work in becomes a Crisis for Christmas centre. Crisis come tomorrow to set up and we'll be having 200 guests from Sunday evening. There's everything from doctors, dentists, hairdressers, through to internet cafe's and anything else you think of that people need.
If you'd like to support, please donate at https://www.crisis.org.uk
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Yes, a good organisation.
It's just amazing how homelessness is concentrated in London so much. Just another example of how over-centralisation creates more injustice.
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Unfortunately, we don’t have dentists this year - apparently they couldn’t get enough senior volunteers to run the service safely. All too busy riding their new Cervelos. It’s a real shame, as it’s one of our more critical services.
@Muppetteer - sounds like you’re describing the Chalk Farm site - if so, that’s where I’ll be, thanks to you people for giving it, and we’ll do our best to give it back in good nick!
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@kl Paddington Green we've been handing over the building for the last 5 years.
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Crisis is finished for this year with the usual cocktail of emotions. In short:
- one person on the street is too many, and is unneccessary
- every volunteer who turns up is a fucking angel
- apart from the pricks who complain that they didn't get the plum jobs (serving dinner, tea/coffee stand) - we need to make the place work, not to indulge your Instagram story
- also the ones who turn up for a shift, then don't bother with the other shifts, because you can tell your mates you 'fed the homeless' - it's tricky to staff a shift with 80 people when the official 'bare minimum' is 103.
- we used to be able to have a pathway for every guest, whether it worked or not. We don't have that now, and can't - every service has been cut to the bone, if it still exists.
- a pox on every Spice dealer in North Ldn
- also every smack dealer
- a pox on every Spice dealer in North Ldn
- ambulance staff ftw - those guys put up with all manner of shit permanently that we take occasionally. Also, 10 years back we didn't need ambulances from one week to the next, now it's numerous times daily.
NOTE: If you voted Tory in this election, you are a cunt, and will always be a cunt, no matter what you do in the rest of your life.
Remember, and this matters in all areas of life: Tory = Cunt
- one person on the street is too many, and is unneccessary
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One thing that, of course, goes on as a matter of routine is to underestimate the amount of homelessness, whether it's rough sleeping or 'accommodated homelessness'. Here's criticism of official numbers on rough sleeping:
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This is a bit sad, a bit brilliant - it also tells you what happened after that 'underground Breaking Bad meth lab found on Hampstead Heath' story a few years back:
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