What care I for a goose-feather bed?
With the sheet turned down so bravely, O!
For to-night I shall sleep in a cold open field.
Along with the raggle taggle gypsies
Not quite the cold open field but the tarmac under Myton Bridge can hardly be the most comfortable place in town either. You'll find homeless rough sleepers in many towns in the UK these days I guess. In Hull, at the last count (that I can find) in autumn last year some 26 people were found to be sleeping out on the streets, not all by any means in tents like these. Homelessness is a huge problem these days, mostly hidden it has to be said (sofa surfing, staying with parents and so on), rough sleepers being the most visible tip of this societal ice berg if I may use a much clichéd metaphor. This country is said to need three million new homes and it needed them, like, yesterday... At the present rate of building most of the homeless will be long dead and maybe... maybe that's the plan.
Other folk at City Daily Photo will hopefully have happier posts, at this month's Blue themed event.
It seems that affordable places to live are a problem in every city. The "gap" just keeps getting bigger.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same problem over here in Ireland. The homeless numbers just keep on rising. :(
ReplyDeleteThat's sad.
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited my daughter in Los Angeles, she took me down a block where homeless people were camped in every available space of the sidewalks. Rent is so exorbitant there that many working people cannot afford them unless they double up.
ReplyDeleteHomelessness is a huge problem here in California. There's an encampment in the riverbed three blocks from my home. They are building a shelter in our town, but many still still decide to sleep outside.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same problem here.
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