Good morning. On 29 June, as the media gathered in Manchester at the People’s History Museum to hear Andy Burnham set out his blueprint to transform the UK, over in Westminster the 1824 Vagrancy Act was quietly repealed. It ended two centuries of criminalising people for the typically blameless fact of not having a home….
People living in caravans and horseboxes on farms in Cornwall because they can’t afford or find a house to rent are facing homelessness after a crackdown by the council. Cornwall council recently announced that it was one of the top five authorities in England for enforcing infringements of planning regulations. Half of those notices, it…
Judges, state public defenders and city officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are taking steps to curb a cycle of missed court dates and arrest warrants for crimes related to living outside that has led to a county jail population that’s about half homeless. Eighteen months ago, judges in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, noticed an…
In the outpouring of community grief that followed Guardian Australia’s story about Bikram Lama, a comment by a colleague really hit home: double quotation markThe reality is that, even if I met Bikram right now, I still couldn’t guarantee him a way off the street. And it’s true. Despite the genuine sadness and goodwill behind…
Homelessness, empty shops, vandalism and potholes came up in local election conversations when BBC News travelled on the Midlands Metro tram system. BBC Radio WM’s political reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn travelled along the route from Wolverhampton to Birmingham, via West Bromwich, asking passengers for their thoughts ahead of the local elections on 7 May. In the…
Shorouk Express Another 2,649 people, 27 percent of the total, were staying in nonconventional housing, including nonapproved accommodation structures, temporary accommodations or squats. 1,539 people, 16 percent of the total, were staying with third parties. According to Bruss’Help, “the scale of the problem exceeds all individual initiatives,” and it hopes that the current report will…
Shorouk Express If you’ve been at Madrid Barajas’ Terminal 4 in recent years, you may have been approached by someone asking you for money, perhaps pretending to be a traveller who has run out of money or lost their wallet. The Spanish capital’s airport has seen a steep rise in the number of homeless people…
