{"id":212423,"date":"2015-12-29T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=212423"},"modified":"2015-12-29T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:54:39","slug":"austerity-caused-8-yr-homelessness-peak-says-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/austerity-caused-8-yr-homelessness-peak-says-corbyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity has caused 8-yr homelessness peak, says Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called the UK\u2019s \u201csoaring homelessness\u201d a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d blaming the Conservative government\u2019s austerity drive for the magnitude of the problem, after homelessness figures hit an 8-year peak.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a disgrace that young and often vulnerable people are among the hardest-hit from the government\u2019s cuts to welfare \u2014 cuts that make it far harder for people facing homelessness to get back on their feet,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe must all fight for a society that is more decent, secure and fair, and where no one facing homelessness is cast aside.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgYHbSueMyY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">The number of families living in emergency accommodation has reached its highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Between July and September of this year almost 70,000 families were housed in temporary accommodation including hostels and hotels. In the same three-month period, councils throughout the UK accepted some 15,000 new applications for <em>\u201cstatutory homeless,\u201d<\/em> according to figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>Chartered Institute of Housing policy chief Melanie Rees told the Independent the rising tide of homelessness is tied to the failure of welfare and housing assistance to keep up with rapidly rising rents.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSome very good work was done over the last 10 years or so to help get people out of temporary accommodation, to minimize the use of bed and breakfasts, but we\u2019re starting to see that go into reverse because of a lack suitable places to move onto, and lack of affordable accommodation,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Labour\u2019s analysis of the figures, the number of homeless households may reach 75,000 by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/311182-homeless-people-scotland-single\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0Scotland failing to house half single homeless people \u2014 study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shadow Minister for Housing John Healey said: \u201cIt\u2019s a scandal that after so much progress was made on homelessness under Labour, we\u2019ve gone into reverse under the Tories.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese five years of failure weren\u2019t inevitable \u2014 Labour showed in government how much progress can be made. Tory ministers must now act to stop the crisis of high homelessness getting even worse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government said:<em> \u201cThe reality is, statutory homelessness is now less than half the 2003\/04 peak. This government takes homelessness extremely seriously and since 2010, we have made \u00a31 billion (US$1.5 billion) available to prevent and tackle the issue. This investment has prevented nearly a million households becoming homeless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D1jUzy0gRZQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/326795-homelessness-austerity-housing-corbyn\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called the UK\u2019s \u201csoaring homelessness\u201d a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d blaming the Conservative government\u2019s austerity drive for the magnitude of the problem, after homelessness figures hit an 8-year peak. \u201cIt\u2019s a disgrace that young and often vulnerable people are among the hardest-hit from the government\u2019s cuts to welfare \u2014 cuts that make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}