Government set to decriminalise rough sleeping
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Brace for a new era of tent cities
Government set to decriminalise rough sleeping
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Government set to decriminalise rough sleeping
Government set to decriminalise rough sleeping
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Tent cities could pop up across the UK as rough sleeping is decriminalised, critics of the policy say.
Deputy Prime Minister to scrap 200-year-old law, with fears more people could camp on streets
Critics fear scrapping the Vagrancy Act will lead to a proliferation of ‘tent cities’ similar to that in American cities like San…
An isolated hotel room is the last place most homeless people want to spend the day and there was little provision for food
The Vagrancy Act, originally introduced in 1824 for the punishment of ‘idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds’
The number of rough sleepers has risen dramatically since 2010, from 1,768 people thought to be sleeping rough on an average…