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Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness
(www.ft.com)
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(without reading article) The answer presumably boils down to "the Tories".
Unfortunately the solutions are opposed by both sides, as lefties are arguing points about house building not reducing costs which doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
https://archive.is/LtQFc
If we build a million McMansions, they won't sell for £500k+ due to oversupply.
"Affordable housing" is just basically building more at this point, the reason you can sell ex-council houses for over £300k is because, as the article you didn't read says, 1 in 200 are homeless due to insufficient housing.
.5% of UK is homeless?
US official number is .25% but it doesn't account for people living in cars and other form "invisiable" homelessness, which eatimated to be much larger number than visiable
Then you should read the article.
This is the official statistics for people living in temporary accommodation whilst waiting for a house. These are families living in single room accommodation like a hotel room.
Sounds like the contents then don't support the headline.
I don't click corpo propaganda btw, let their owners pay for it themselves lol
It's an article by Shelter.
Which they would know, if they had read the article, right?
Edit: I shouldn't comment just to express salt at someone, so actually also, thanks OP for the no-paywall link.
Yes, I'm not sure how the preferred way to present content on here is yet so I gave the original URL as the link and then commented the archive link. I sometimes see people complaining that they don't see the body, so it sounds like we have to work around some crappy clients too.
If there is a preferred way of presenting this then I will update the submission.
Yeah, stuff like this is messy. I like that we're all muddling along and figuring things out as they go. Much of this is a problem with distributed social media — but not "problem" in a bad way, but something to overcome.
Practically, I don't know if there's a better way to do it, because as you say, there's not a one size fits all solution. I just wanted to say thanks because I probably wouldn't have read the article myself if I had to get a no-paywall link myself, so the little conveniences help.
its an FT link aka UK premier neoliberal rag