Homeless charity Shelter carried out a tenant survey and analysed Government data on temporary housing, benefits and employment
THE number of working homeless has nearly doubled in just five years.
Teachers and staff at high-end stores are among the 33,000 employed people sleeping rough, up from 19,000 in 2013.
“Kallum” earns £8.50 an hour as a security guard at Prada in London but kips at shelters and on pals’ sofas after being turned down for a council house.
He tells Channel 4’s Dispatches tonight: “It’s like I’m Superman. I never have enough sleep or feel refreshed enough to get up and go to work.”
Teacher Emma found herself on the streets in her 50s after her marriage broke down.
She washes daily at a McDonald’s and fears losing her job in adult education if bosses find out she’s homeless.
THERE cannot be one sensible person who believes we should pay a penny of our £39billion “divorce fee” from the EU before it has signed off a bumper trade deal.
We salute new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab for ruling it out. We will hold the Government to it. It will not survive if it meekly hands that fortune to Brussels with nothing in return.
We also applaud the energy Mr Raab is injecting into our plans to “thrive” even with no deal next March. That now seems the likeliest result after the latest rebuff. But it is disgraceful this planning was not done two years ago.
Compare Mr Raab’s positivity with the tiresome Remoaning of John Major, now calling for the second referendum he used to rule out as “not credible” until Remain lost. Or the same demand and the same Eyeore-ish doom-mongering from Remain zealot Dominic Grieve, now predicting “catastrophe”.
Faith in our democracy is already at dangerously low levels. But these sore losers would dismantle it entirely if that’s what it took to get their way.
Will they ever give it a rest?
Emma said: “I kept on working because that was the only thing nobody could take away from me.
“I have been asked to pay a £2,000 deposit. Nobody keeps £2,000 on hand like that.”
Shelter carried out a tenant survey and analysed Government data on temporary housing, benefits and employment.
Chief Polly Neate said: “In many cases, these are parents who work all day or night before returning to a cramped hostel.” She called for more social housing.
