Charities report increase as figures show overall rough sleeping in London is up by 35% in five years
Growing numbers of women are reporting as homeless in England as figures show rough sleeping in London has risen by 35% in five years.
More than 11,000 people were counted sleeping rough in the capital from April 2020 to March 2021, a 3% increase on the previous year, despite the push to get “everyone in” last spring. The homelessness charity Crisis described the figures as “dreadful” and said it showed progress resulting from the push to house people in hotels at the start of the pandemic was “in imminent danger of being lost”.
