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New funding from city hall will help support homeless people forced to sleep on londons public transport through the night. outreach teams will aim to find people on buses and tubes and give them accommodation. its part of a £2 million scheme aimed at tackling rough sleeping, which figures suggest rose byjust over 20% in london last year. next, alongside maths, english and science, a group of pupils in east london are also learning to rap. christian foley is a poet, musician and writer whose pe...

Forced to sleep on londons public transport through the night. outreach teams will aim to find people on the bus and tube network and give them accommodation. its part of a £2 million scheme aimed at tackling rough sleeping, which figures suggest rose byjust over 20% in london last year. alongside maths, english and science, a group of pupils in east london are also learning to rap. christian foley is a poet, musician and writer whose performances have gone viral. he now goes into schools to in...

Baroness Casey, who sits in Britains upper house of parliament, released the 363-page dossier which revealed that the Met Police is failing women and children and is institutionally racist.

The homeless charity Shelter described the private sector as like the wild west, with people gazumped and tenants evicted and replaced with higher paying tenants.

THE Homelessness Partnership BCP has made strides towards ending rough sleeping in the conurbation, since its formation in October 2019.

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Tackling the problem. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has more. after a night on the streets, the need for heat and food. at this bristol homeless service, they are feeding up to 100 people a day and numbers are rising. i’m feeding up to 100 people a day and numbers are rising.— numbers are rising. im not happy. this treaty — numbers are rising. im not happy. this treaty will— numbers are rising. im not happy. this treaty will kill _ numbers are rising. im not happy. th...

The same time, there are other policies leading to homelessness, or at least not tackling it. you see on the 100 government causing it and trying to pick up the pieces, which is nonsensical —— on one hand. i am sure they are frustrated the other parts of government that deal with welfare policy and housing supply havent got behind the effort to end rough sleeping. we saw a commitment to end it by 2024, and i think we know it wont be possible. resort the government _ know it wont be possible....

On my feet all day moving around. i can have my own space at the end of the day. sam was soon joined by simon, whod spent the day in a&e with chest pains. when the shelter opened, sam managed to get one of the dozen available beds, but the rest had been allocated. so simon was forced to join the thousands of others who each evening call englands pavements their home. michael buchanan, bbc news, bristol. joining me now is emma haddad, chief executive of st mungos homeless charity. good to see you...

People losing their private rented tenancy. they can do that. it is about the long—term picture, getting it sorted. if we build all the housing we need, it will take sometime. but if we dont acknowledge it, it will take even longer. these things need to be joined up, a full strategy to tackle all forms of homelessness, and this can be done. this is not an impossible issue. every month and year that goes by where it isnt sorted, we see more people living and dying on our streets, and that is un...