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An influential report that casts light on the alarming rise of homelessness in England has been crowned the best housing research of 2023. Led by a team of academics from Heriot-Watt University, the Homelessness Monitor: England 2023, has been singled out by the housing research website, Thinkhouse,
Around a million children in the UK experienced destitution in 2022—almost three times as many as in 2017—meaning that their families lacked the means to keep them clean, fed, and warm, shows a report funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.1 From 2017 to 2022 the number of people of any age living in destitution in the UK more than doubled, rising from 1.55 million to 3.8 million. But the rise in the number of children in destitution was much higher, rising by 186% from 365 000 in 2017 to around a million in 2023.2 Suzanne Fitzpatrick of the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equali...
It is often being left to charities to try to plug gaps for people in desperate situations, the report said.
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GLASGOW appears on a list of areas in the UK that are worst for destitution.