Homelessness is rising as the effects of the recession get more serious, government figures find. Over the first three months of this year 26,400 people have approached a local housing councils, less than half of which could be helped.
Relationship breakdowns and rejection by family and friends remain key causes of homelessness. Rent arrears and mortgage defaults are responsible for the increase in amount of people without home.
The biggest increases are in London, where homelessness rose by up to over 90% in areas like Bromley, Hammersmith and Fulham.
Homelessness figures are expected to rise even further in the following months as a result of government made changes in housing benefit policies.
It seems to me that whenever the economy is doing less well it’s usually the bottom end of society that gets to live with less means of existence than they already have, whereas the top end of society keeps receiving their bonuses, which to me seem somewhat out of proportion.
I’ll happily acknowledge though that I’m probably too dumb to understand how things really work and that it probably wouldn’t be possible to have wealth distributed slightly less unequally, or the consequences would be worse than the original problem, or would they?
Let me start by saying you should not talk down upon yourself in your blogs, usually blogs are used for the exact opposite, but surely talking down upon oneself is not what should be done. No negative comments on your text, I’d advise you to perhaps consider changing your layout a little, that way it might be easier to see when your summary stops and your response starts. Interesting article!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt wasn't intended in the least as talking down upon myself, rather as form of sarcasm. The style may not be too strongly chosen, though. If you read my other (13) blogs you'll notice that none of them have any such thing like what you call talking down upon myself.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI deliberately chose this layout, I like my posts to look like articles and I like the fact that one can only judge by content where the shift between summary and reaction is.