When you read the descriptions of the causes of rough sleeping, nearly none of them can be fixed by dictat. What can work is providing help to improve mental health, reduce drug dependency etc. But t… (View Post)

It depends on definition. But there are considered to be 300-400K people "homeless". With about 5,000 sleeping rough on the streets each night - as measured by the charities that are funded… (View Post)

And having encountered certain people in the charity world, they project a belief in a lack of compassion in others, because they lack it themselves. (View Post)

The rough sleeping problem, isn't the sleeping outdoors bit. That's the *outcome*. Herding them all into accomodation rapidly broke down, during COVID, because of the personal issues of the… (View Post)

That's pretty much what we used to do. And the initiations were so horrific that people all over the political spectrum fought to end them. In addition, modern law doesn't allow you to lock… (View Post)