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Tories oversee ever-rising scourge of homelessness
HOMELESS levels in England have increased every year since the Tory-led coalition took power, the government’s own figures revealed yesterday.
An annual snapshot of statistics released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) shows that 2,744 people were found to be sleeping rough on a given night last autumn.
That is up 330 from 2,414 people in autumn 2013, an increase of 14 per cent that continues a trend of rising numbers over the last five years.
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