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Soaring number of rough sleepers in London ‘extremely alarming’ - TheGuardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Rough sleeping is soaring in London, with over 1,700 more people on the streets than last year – a 21% rise, according to figures from the Greater London Authority (GLA).

The increase from 8,329 people seen sleeping rough in 2021-22 to 10,053 in 2022-23 was described as “categorically terrible” by Rick Henderson, the chief executive of the Homeless Link frontline charity, and “extremely alarming” by Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Still don't understand why they're called rough sleepers. Sleeping on the streets is not "sleeping rough". That term is for when you had bad sleep because you had an all nighter or your baby kept you up all night. It really trivializes their situation.