{"id":7360,"date":"2016-03-09T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-rough-sleepers-are-only-the-tip-of-the-homelessness-iceberg\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:13:22","slug":"britains-rough-sleepers-are-only-the-tip-of-the-homelessness-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-rough-sleepers-are-only-the-tip-of-the-homelessness-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain's rough sleepers are only the tip of the homelessness iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhile rooflessness is the most visible form of homelessness, low-paid families and the young are increasingly among the hidden victims of the housing crisisRough sleeping is the traumatic, health-destroying tip of the homelessness iceberg. It is also the most visible form of this social ill, one that crashes uncomfortably into the sightline of the comfortable and secure as they go about their business. Street sleepers are, as one Tory minister once allegedly put it, the people \u201cyou step over when you come out of the opera\u201d.But for all its ability to shock and unsettle the public \u2013 it is not just altruism that makes politicians devote resources to trying to ensure street sleepers do not spoil the views enjoyed by the relatively affluent \u2013 rough sleeping arguably represents extreme rooflessness rather than the UK\u2019s growing structural crisis of homelessness and housing insecurity. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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While rooflessness is the most visible form of homelessness, low-paid families and the young are...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-1UI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105131,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dont-make-criminals-of-homeless-people-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":7360,"position":0},"title":"Don\u2019t make criminals of homeless people | Letters","date":"March 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Labour plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act are welcomed by a group of MPs, while Chris Bailey calls for funding to tackle empty homes. 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