„Ohne dieses Café müsste ich stehlen, um zu überleben“

My County offers a lot more than neighbouring Counties in terms of homeless provision. Unfortunately we are struggling picking up the pieces of our broken asylum system. Once someone has been given indefinite to leave to remain, Serco is kicking them out of the hotels onto the streets, telling them to register as homeless with the Council. I work in a shelter where rough sleepers who have been identified by our outreach teams, are housed on their way to more permanent accommodation.

Of our 40 odd rooms, over a third are occupied by Foreign Nationals who have come to the UK and claimed asylum, gone through the process, been granted asylum and then made homeless for the Council to deal with. As a result we don’t have enough rooms for British rough sleepers.

Lack of social housing further up the chain causes blockages too.