Thousands of households facing homelessness through rent arrears were eligible for emergency help from Tower Hamlets Council in the first six months of the Covid emergency.
Published:
1:00 PM February 2, 2021
Updated:
5:19 PM February 2, 2021
More people are sleeping rough on streets of the East End - depicted by model Andrew.
- Credit: Sam Mellish, stockshot
Rough sleeping shot up by almost a third in the East End leading up to the New Year, latest shock figures reveal.
Numbers of those on the streets during the winter nights rose by 30 per cent, statistics for Tower Hamlets show. The GLA found 144 people sleeping rough in the three months to the end of December, compared to 111 in the previous quarter.
London Assembly s Unmesh Desai is calling for another campaign to get rough sleepers off the streets