In new data, it’s been revealed that overall spending on homelessness has increased by 10.5% since 2021/22 and a majority of councils have reported their costs have gone up.
Inflation is soaring all over the world. And we know that companies are taking advantage of the excuse to raise prices in excess of inflation. Brexit dealt a huge blow to the UK specifically. A war in Europe restricting the flow of quite a few staple goods.
And the Tories systemically gutting every social safety net they reasonably can over the past 13 years.
And for major cities like London, private landlords take full advantage, using every excuse they can to increase the rent by the maximum they can year-over-year. Which also has the secondary effect of forcing working-class people to move very frequently, which is expensive. I knew very few people who were renting and hadn’t moved at least once in the last 3 years. Some moved multiple times.
As others have said, a lot of things.
Inflation is soaring all over the world. And we know that companies are taking advantage of the excuse to raise prices in excess of inflation. Brexit dealt a huge blow to the UK specifically. A war in Europe restricting the flow of quite a few staple goods.
And the Tories systemically gutting every social safety net they reasonably can over the past 13 years.
And for major cities like London, private landlords take full advantage, using every excuse they can to increase the rent by the maximum they can year-over-year. Which also has the secondary effect of forcing working-class people to move very frequently, which is expensive. I knew very few people who were renting and hadn’t moved at least once in the last 3 years. Some moved multiple times.