{"id":62639,"date":"2017-08-03T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-accepted-homelessness-while-the-rich-left-houses-empty-no-more\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T17:36:08","slug":"we-accepted-homelessness-while-the-rich-left-houses-empty-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-accepted-homelessness-while-the-rich-left-houses-empty-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"We accepted homelessness while the rich left houses empty. No more"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTo live in a city in England has meant turning a blind eye to the homeless. Grenfell has changed that\u201cWhere does he keep his toothbrush, Mummy?\u201d I always remember my eldest child\u2019s first reaction, when a toddler, to seeing a young man sleeping in a doorway. This was King\u2019s Cross in north London in the mid-80s. Overnight, it seemed that homelessness had become visible. Young people whose benefits had been cut, and who could no longer live independently of their parents, were on the streets. Until then, I had not seen beggars on the streets of\u00a0London. I had seen them when I was hitching around Europe. The beggars of Lisbon shocked me: Portugal was in a terrible state then, with empty shops and desperately poor people.I had made London my home, so I had to do that thing that everyone does: turn a blind eye to the lost, addicted, abused, ill people everywhere, who cannot be given money in case they spend it on \u201cthe wrong things\u201d. We harden ourselves. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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