from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 21:27
https://lemmy.world/post/14881498
Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show
The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis.
Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022.
The figures also show the number of people – including children – in temporary accommodation hit record levels in 2023, triggering warnings of a housing “emergency”.
Mike Amesbury, the shadow minister for homelessness, said: “These stats reveal a growing Tory housing emergency being felt by families in every part of the country. Over the past 14 years, the Tories have taken a wrecking ball to the foundation of a secure home, leaving Britain facing a homelessness epidemic.
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As awful as that is, based on your link, at least the children are all being put in a place where they have meals and a roof over their heads.
There was a high school girl who came into the library where my wife worked who slept in a tent out in the woods with her alcoholic father (there was no indication he was sexually abusing her). We bought her another tent so she could have some privacy, but that was all we could do. She walked for miles every morning to get to school. I felt so bad for her.
why even live in a tent if you also camp miles away from where you need to go every day
Because they can’t afford a home and homeless people get driven out of their encampments into the woods outside of town by the cops.
There are only so many places the unhoused can go without their shit getting fucked with
I imagine cops would forcibly remove homeless tents near nice neighborhoods, which is usually where schools are located.
miles also isn’t really far though. I walk miles to go get a freezy on a sunday
Maybe Sunak should take a break from trying to send people to Rwanda to tackle this
That would entail Sunak actually giving a shit about the people vs him staying in power by placating the racists.
That ship sailed a while back. He’ll be running away to Santa Monica before the year is up.
Sending people to Rwanda is part of blaming a certain group for everything that is going wrong. Housing crisis? Caused by this group, then take some terrible action against them. Meaning, they’ll keep sending them to Rwanda.
Honestly don’t think they even want to send people to Rwanda.
They just think it sounds horrible so racist old cunts vote for them.
well, it’s not just a housing crisis
A decade of electing right wing governments, even AFTER the direct lies about Brexit - made things worse? NOWAY! \s
its global though. Is it really that all these countries happened to vote in their right/left wing parties or is something else going on
It’s not global. Go get the Wikipedia page of “homelessness by country”. It’s not global. It’s not the case in Finland or Vietnam for instance.
I think they are referring to the phenomenon that seems to be taking place where far right politicians seem to be gaining ground in many countries across the globe
The reason for extremism gaining traction is relatively known, but OP was questioning the more subtle “conservative”-leaning parties being in power globally (seemingly) for the past decade at least. That’s somewhat harder to explain. For example, it’s harder to explain how most western countries became neo-liberal at the end of the 90s.
Extremism gains traction when there’s societal divide with at least one of the divisions significantly poorer than the other.
This is what happens when you elect politicians that are in Putin's pocket.
Nah. It’s what happens when you support the growing disparity in wealth for generations.
so they’re short on bootstraps, gumption, and elbow grease huh
Their rich people are doing fine.
As always.
16%? Wtf? That’s almost 1 in 5 people being homeless.
It’s an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.
Oh, thanks for that clarification lol.
xkcd.com/985/
The number of homeless people jumped by 16% (I assume compared to last year’s numbers). That doesn’t mean that 16% of people are homeless.
16.6r% is one sixth. 👍
It’s title gore. I thought the same thing at first.
Yes… I thought 'WTF… that can’t be right" then read the first sentence, went back to the title “Oh… no I didn’t misunderstand, I was mislead”. Bad OP.
How is that misleading?
Jumps by 16%? Jump to 16%? I would question my own mastery of English but if others had the same problem then arguably it was not clear enough.
I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).
Jumped to X% is entirely different.
For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”
How is that titlegore?
I read it as “homelessness jumps 16% from wherever the fuck it was before”
It was your reading comprehension that let you down, not the headline 😂
I understood it the second pass. Just because it’s grammatically correct doesn’t mean it’s clearly written.
Conservatism is a deadly national disease long overdue for a cure.
Unfortunately, conservatives currently control the Labour Party.
And when you consider how they are maintaining their majority position within the party, you may want to reconsider the state of democracy in the UK.
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Whatever you do don’t try to build tiny homes for the homeless. Last time someone tried it the government wrecked them.