Homelessness

This week in my road I witnessed household possessions being dumped on the pavement, including mattresses, bedside units, cardboard boxes, lamp shade, laundry basket, handbags, bin liners. Not sure of the circumstances but I fear eviction of a tenant(s)

Seeing this ad campaign reminded me to post

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If you are undecided where to go skiing this winter.. spare a thought..

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Any places that would take a couple unwanted sleeping bags? Preferably south east/central for the sake of lugging them across town. Both in good and usable condition

https://lewishamdonationhub.org
They aren't taking general donations atm but will take stuff to support homeless. If you want to check just message them on facebook and they will respond.

I’ve sent them a message now, cheers for that

If you'd posted a week ago, I'd have taken them to Crisis@Christmas. If the above doesn't work out, drop Crisis a line - they have a hub in Bermondsey.

Not specifically for you but if anyone's in West London with stuff to give, we donated a bunch of sleeping bags/bedding and electronics like phones to https://www.ealingsoupkitchen.org/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hwz5

The fabric of society is so thread bare these days. Record levels of homelessness, living on the edge of society, housing crisis, cost of living, rent spikes, vehicle dwellers, recent legislation

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/part/4/enacted

boat dwellers, the new nomads in ‘meanwhile’ sites and ultimately dealing with mental health.

My eldest daughter has been living off grid since leaving her job and travel around Europe, feels liberated from social norms. Not easy staying in contact, no address given.

A good article indirectly on the recent spewings of that pathetic caricature of a home secretary:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/rough-sleeping-milton-keynes-rehousing-suella-braverman

Obviously, one shouldn't take the perspective of a leading councillor as read, as there is always another perspective on the work of a council, but there is much in here that is true:

Making it a civil offence to provide tents to homeless people is not the way to end rough sleeping. Instead, we need to support people who are spiralling. Homelessness could happen to any of us. A government with any compassion would not forget this.

https://insidetime.org/old-chess-master-opens-cafe-of-hope/

https://hosb.org.uk/homelessness/#:~:text=The%20House%20of%20St%20Barnabas%20is%20on%20a%20mission%20to,homelessness%20to%20rebuild%20their%20lives.

I’m sharing the email I received this morning from HoSB

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I remember seeing dozens of tents under the underpasses in Central MK. Never any issues with the people living in them, just the Young Team on the redways

It continues to be so utterly depressing.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/homeless-temporary-accommodation-england-housing-government-b1123898.html

Just some light reading of how politics continues to fail to do anything about homelessness, whose main cause is the overheated and still overheating housing 'market':

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/31/rough-sleeping-london-record-high-homelessness

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/rough-sleeping-london-homelessness-record-high-labour-sadiq-khan-housing-b1191244.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/park-lane-hyde-park-homeless-camp-transport-for-london-westminster-city-council-b1189408.html

we breached the topic in our seminar today. one of my students said the homeless death rate has significantly increased this year. government doesn’t collect homeless death statistics

I'm pretty sure neoliberal filth like homelessness to be a fear for the precariat. I also suspect they harbour a sentiment opposite to the notion that we're all diminished by the worst circumstances affecting any of us - they probably crave the distance to look down on others, the fucken parasitic scum.

Look at all those shit cunts who obviously deserve their misery (because it's a just world, of course), not like fancy me with my Rolls and Louis Vuitton, preen preen preen

I’m not quite sure that’s true.
There’s experimental statistics from ONS and local government does get this info.

perhaps you are right, we read that: "Official data on the number of people who have died while homeless is not available because the government does not collect it, but the Dying Homeless project has calculated that 1,469 people affected by homelessness died between October 2017 and September 2020." the foot note led us to https://dying-homeless.museumofhomelessness.org/

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsofhomelesspeopleinenglandandwales/2021registrations

If the museum of homlessness is making FOI requests from Local Authorities then it's being collected just not published. Possibly because of information governance issues.