Corbyn calls soaring homelessness disgrace
The UK’s Labour party leader has called the soaring homelessness in the country a disgrace.
Jeremy Corbyn blamed the Tory government’s austerity policies for the deteriorating problem.
“It’s a disgrace that young and often vulnerable people are among the hardest-hit from the government’s cuts to welfare – cuts that make it far harder for people facing homelessness to get back on their feet,” he said.
The comment came after official figures showed that nearly 69-thousand of British families had to stay in bed-and-breakfast lodging and other temporary housing between July and September.
Chartered Institute of Housing said the rising number of homelessness is tied to the failure of welfare and housing assistance to keep up with rapidly rising rents.
That’s the highest number in a three-month period since the 2008 financial crash. Councils across Britain accepted about 15-thousand new applications for homelessness in the same time span, which is more than any time in the past eight years.
“The policies of the Conservative government are making life hard for some certain classes,” a London-based analyst Tony Gosling told Press TV.
He went on saying that the new austerity measures adopted by the Tories are affecting negatively more classes.
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