{"id":181555,"date":"2023-11-15T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181555"},"modified":"2023-11-15T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:30:35","slug":"londons-number-of-rough-sleepers-hits-highest-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/londons-number-of-rough-sleepers-hits-highest-level\/","title":{"rendered":"London&apos;s number of rough sleepers hits highest level"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>London&#8217;s number of rough sleepers hits highest level since records began and 12 per cent up on last year<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>London&#8217;s councils are set to spend \u00a390 billion over their budget tackling crisis<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>London is now home to the highest number of rough sleepers since records began, new statistics show.<\/p>\n<p>Over 4,000 people were recorded as sleeping rough on the capital&#8217;s streets between July and September &#8211; 12% up on the same period last year &#8211; and with over half doing so for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>It comes days after the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, branded sleeping on the street as a &#8216;lifestyle choice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>London Councils, a cross-party group representing the capital&#8217;s local authorities, warned that 60,000 Londoners in private rental accommodation risk being made homeless by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 22,000 households would be pushed out of their homes if the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) continues to be freezed, it said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77684213-12737825-image-a-39_1699720997582.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The number of rough sleepers in the capital reached a record high between July and September this year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77684207-0-image-a-37_1699720524941.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cross-party organisation London Councils predicts that as many as 22,000 families, could be made homeless by 2030<\/p>\n<p>The LHA, which is either paid as part of Universal Credit or as a housing benefit, has not increased since 2020, and are relied on by one in seven London private renters.<\/p>\n<p>But the payments are enough to go towards some costs, rather than covering all of rents in all areas.<\/p>\n<p>With over 50% of homeless households in temporary accommodation, London&#8217;s councils are on course to spend as much as \u00a390 billion more than their budget tackling the crisis, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Research suggests that changing LHA to cover 30% of local market rents could relieve the public purse of over \u00a3100 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Darren Rodwell, the Leader of Barking and Dagenham borough, said that pressure of homelessness on the capital was &#8216;enormous and unsustainable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/11\/16\/77684211-0-image-a-38_1699720532285.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The capital&#8217;s councils are set to spend \u00a390billion over their homelessness budget tackling rough sleeping in their boroughs<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;London is the epicentre of the national homelessness crisis. The situation is increasingly unmanageable and requires urgent government action. We cannot continue in this disastrous direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just as the government boosted LHA during the Covid-19 pandemic to prevent a wave of mass homelessness, we need a similar emergency response to the situation today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;An increase in LHA will help low-income households pay their rents and avoid homelessness, which can be so devastating to families and bring massive costs to local services.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Affordable property listings in London for those with benefits have plummeted in availability, with only 2.3% on Rightmove fitting the criteria &#8211; well down on 18.9% in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A Government spokesperson said that is was investing over \u00a330bn in housing support, while pointing to Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) as a &#8216;safety net&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12737825\/Londons-number-rough-sleepers-hits-highest-level-records-began-12-cent-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s number of rough sleepers hits highest level since records began and 12 per cent up on last year London&#8217;s councils are set to spend \u00a390 billion over their budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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