Local Homeless Rate Nearly Double National Average

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Ruth Cadbury MP calls on Minister to do more to tackle the issue

Brentford and Isleworth MP, Ruth Cadbury, has spoken on a debate on homelessness this week.

Along with other MPs, she challenged the secretary of state for communities and local government, the Rt Hon. Greg Clark MP on the government’s record on the issue.

She said that addition to street homelessness doubling since 2010, the number of households with no permanent home has increased to 370,000. She argued this was a direct result of government policy.

Hounslow’s statutory homeless rate is nearly double the UK average at 4.44 households out of 1,000 being accepted as homeless and in priority need compared to a national average of 2.4.

Ruth Cadbury says, ‘Yet again, the government fails to recognise the impact that their cuts have made on local communities. The removal of funding for new social rent housing, the housing benefit cap, the bedroom tax, the rise in sanctions and the sale of 100,000 council homes all contribute to the housing crisis which is leading to a widespread homelessness here in the UK.’

March 22, 2016