Since mid summer I’ve followed a project (on social media) that artists Lisa Morales and Stacy Gresell have been collaborating on. The duo included their artist friends and now, it’s
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The UK government’s recent annual rough sleeping snapshot showing that rough sleeping has fallen 43% in England since 2018 was welcome news for Dr Nick Maguire, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southampton.
The data published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) showed a reduction from 4,677 people sleeping rough in 2018 compared with 2,688 people estimated to be sleeping rough in autumn 2020 when the figures were captured.
Further data published shows a continued downward trend in rough sleeping numbers over the winter – with the total number of people recorded as sleeping rough across the whole of England falling to 1,461 at the end of January. Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, attributes the fall to added government funding made through the ‘Everyone In’ project which launched at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic which he says has now supported 37,000 people into secure accommodation with more than 26,000 m