Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years

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• apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good first step! Can we remove all the anti-human bullshit that we’ve put everywhere too?

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• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great news. How about putting some money into building social housing next?

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  • JohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which is what they announced in the spending review today: £39b over ten years to social housing. I was not expecting that, but I definitely welcome it. How about getting the planning system sorted and a major increase in skilled labourers happen next? Tomorrow is fine.

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In case anyone never heard the term before

  Rough sleeping refers to people who are homeless and sleeping on the streets or in other places not meant for people to live in such as cars, doorways, parks, bus shelters and abandoned buildings

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep. It’s to distinguish it from other forms of homelessness, such as “sofa surfing” (where someone moves from one friend or family member to another for short periods without having a fixed address of their own), people temporarily living in homeless shelters/boarding houses, people living in places which aren’t really accommodation (such as their place of work), and “statutory homelessness” (a broader legal definition which includes a few things which might not seem like homelessness, such as people who are at serious risk of violence in their homes).

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh didnt know that either. Thanks mate.

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• Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Government scraps 200-year-old law making rough sleeping a criminal offence in England and Wales.

  The outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 will be axed for good, reflecting modern attitudes, increased financial support for the homeless and the government’s mission to get to its root causes.

  New legislation will target real crimes instead such as organised begging by gangs and trespassing—protecting communities without penalising vulnerable people.

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• Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder if they’ll remove the shitty stuff they put where people could try and sleep? (Spikes etc…)

  I’ll make a bet the answer is no.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I knew about rough love and rough sex, but rough sleeping?

  Jesting off, that’s great!

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fair enough. Need to make space for all the disabled people Kier has sent to the streets.

  [In all honesty this decriminalisation is a good thing but this government is still terrible]

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