According to some research conducted by CRESR/Crisis: “Rough sleeping may be more prevalent, enduring and ‘invisible’ than we think. The majority of respondents had slept rough, often in ‘out of sight’ locations and with little contact with support services such as rough sleeper teams. Rough sleeping was not an emergency measure for a [...]
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Are you cops?
One of the volunteers and I were walking through the centre of Leeds last night on our way up to the soup-run when we spotted a couple of guys who we had seen at the soup-run a few weeks before. We didn’t really know them but had had a quick chat with them. As we [...]
Try Again; Yet Again
Another film from Simon on the Streets [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMnCCLuJuI] Support the work of Simon on the Streets
Rough Sleeping, Street Homelessness and Homelessness
Rough-Sleeping People sleeping rough or bedded down in the open air (such as streets, in doorways, parks or bus shelters) people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats, stations or bashes). The definition does not include people in hostels or shelters or other sites [...]
