Red Brick on the homeless
February 3rd, 2011
If you read nothing else today read Red Brick on Cameron’s attitude to the homeless. Thatcher MkII.
https://redbrickblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-revolving-door-for-homeless-people/
I can still remember central London during the 1970s with few to no visible homeless people and then the way the subway between Charing Cross Station and the north side of the Strand filled up every night after midnight as the 1980s wore on, and doorways began to be occupied by the young (16 to 18) in Salvation Army sleeping bags (YTS, family breakdown and all that).
I think the Tory philosophy of today on housing might reasonably be summed up as “we’re ok, you can ffffffffffffffind a cardboard box”.
With one exception; at least Boris has had the balls to pursue housing standards and for that I admire him, for the rest of them, the sooner the coalition falls and we have a general election the better.
Fifty years ago politicians of all creeds were falling over themselves to build 300,000 homes a year and now, when they’re more needed than ever, and it would help pull the country out of recession, there they sit on their hands doing nothing and worse, pulling out the rug from under the few people who have a subsidised home and forcing them into private rented accommodation.
This is Cathy Come Home writ large.
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