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HOMELESSNESS campaign groups warned MPs today that there was still an “emergency situation” on the streets, with hundreds sleeping rough in London alone.
Councillors and charities gave evidence at a housing, communities and local government select committee meeting on the progress of the Tories’ response to homelessness during the Covid-19 crisis.
Over the past two months councils and charities have co-ordinated an unprecedented effort to move rough sleepers into hotels following a call by Housing Minister Luke Hall in March to “bring everyone” off the streets.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON