Health
Reports of rough sleeping in UK rose sharply during lockdown – The Guardian
Exclusive: increase came despite government claims 90% of homeless people had been helped off streets
Reports of people sleeping rough rose sharply during lockdown, despite claims by government that more than 90% of homeless people had been helped off the streets at the height of the pandemic, the Guardian can reveal.
While the government launched a multimillion pound scheme to rehouse people during the Coronavirus crisis, charities said the pandemic had also led to a new cohort of people being made homeless as the services and facilities that they normally relied on closed.
Many were forced o…
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