Social Bite has opened its second homeless village in Scotland and the charity believes it could be a blueprint to helping councils address rising homelessness
Social Bite has opened its second homeless village in Scotland and the charity believes it could be a blueprint to helping councils address rising homelessness
I’ve tried telling people that even a 8’x12’ bunkie ( 3 plywood sheets for the floor ) is drastically better than either the sidewalk or the local homeless-shelter, & that just getting people their own shelter/space ought be the primary concern…
those are luxury-apartments, by comparison.
You can house many more people in bunkies than you can in expensive modular-homes, if you are budget-limited…
Maybe my 7+ years of outright-homelessness have biased me towards help everybody orientation, but … the lives you “can’t afford” to help are lives, too.
Maslow’s hierarchy-of-needs, you know?
Get everybody up into life-safety, & then work on the higher-levels later…
They’re doing good work, but the not-included … die.
The streets are destructive in ways that mere-circumstance can’t possibly communicate.
The toxic culture, the prejudice, the randomly being robbed… the not having any legal right to participate in any online-transaction, because you’ve no address…
grinds you towards death, fast…
So does exposure…
( UK that may not be as much of a thing: in Canada it’s kinda lethal, in winters )
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In the UK it is the council’s responsibility to house you if you cannot afford a home.
I know someone who was homeless there and they didn’t spend any time on the street. However, that might not reflect everyone’s experience. Its quite possible many places are at capacity.
There is a also a few fairly vicious thing councils can do. If you are at any point rude to staff they can deprive you of shelter, and if you refuse to be moved to inaccessible accommodation (say if you are a wheelchair user) they can mark you as “intentionally homeless” and then also refuse you shelter. It’s then your job to prove in court that they acted incorrectly, and good luck doing that when you don’t even have enough money to live, the court wait times are months long and there’s barely any lawyers.