Since the decision to legalise and regulate cannabis nearly four years ago, the state of Colorado has seen an increase year on year in tax revenue. In the most recent financial year, ending in June 2016, the state made nearly $70 million. Revenue gained through taxation was one of the key arguments for legalising weed. Now […]
The UK could see an end to homelessness within 10 years if the government embraces certain policies, according to the homeless charity Crisis. In their new report, Everybody In: How To End Homelessness In Great Britain, Crisis sets out a comprehensive plan to make homelessness “a thing of the past”. It says 100,500 social homes […]
Benefit cuts are forcing young people into homelessness despite recent Government reforms, research reveals. A survey by the homelessness charity Centrepoint found that local authorities supported the principles underpinning the government’s flagship Homelessness Reduction Act. However, it also revealed that welfare restrictions were preventing many young people from being able to rent in the private […]
A village providing housing for homeless people is being launched in Edinburgh. It has been built by the social enterprise Social Bite, and aims to offer support and opportunities to residents as well as accommodation. The homeless village was developed on vacant land in Granton and is made up of 10 two-bedroom houses. The houses were […]
Waste Not Want Not, Merseyside’s first ‘zero-waste, plastic-free, vegan’ store, located in Birkenhead Market, will be the first bring your own packaging grocery shop. Founder of Waste Not Want Not, Emily Gleaves, from Moreton believes that single use plastic is a big issue that needs to be tackled, she said: “We can’t hide away from […]
Drug-related deaths have increased rapidly in the past few years, so why aren’t more homelessness services using naloxone to prevent overdose deaths, asks Sunny Dhadley at Homeless Link? Naloxone is the emergency antidote for overdoses caused by heroin and other opiates/opioids. It temporarily reverses the main life-threatening effect of these drugs, which is the slowing […]
More than 100,000 homeless households in England will be living in temporary housing within two years on existing trends, according to an annual state-of-the-nation report into homelessness. The report, Homeless Monitor, says the explosion in the placement of homeless families in temporary homes, often many miles from where they work and go to school, is […]
A woman has been jailed for six months after she was caught begging for 50p. Marie Baker, described as ‘fragile and vulnerable’, was locked up despite the District Judge, Philip Mackenzie, being upset she didn’t have a lawyer in court. Instead she somehow ended up representing herself in the civil case even though she was […]
The deaths of hundreds of vulnerable homeless people in England and Wales are going unexamined, an investigation has found. Research conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) has revealed that safeguarding adults reviews (SARs) – which charities say are crucial to determining whether the deaths could have been prevented – have almost never been […]
Homeless people are being fined, getting criminal convictions and even sentenced to prison for begging and rough sleeping. The figures, obtained by the Guardian, show that over 50 local authorities have PSPOs in place, despite updated Home Office guidance at the start of the year instructing councils not to target people for being homeless and […]
