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Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis.

Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022.

The figures also show the number of people – including children – in temporary accommodation hit record levels in 2023, triggering warnings of a housing “emergency”.

Mike Amesbury, the shadow minister for homelessness, said: “These stats reveal a growing Tory housing emergency being felt by families in every part of the country. Over the past 14 years, the Tories have taken a wrecking ball to the foundation of a secure home, leaving Britain facing a homelessness epidemic.

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[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

A decade of electing right wing governments, even AFTER the direct lies about Brexit - made things worse? NOWAY! \s

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

its global though. Is it really that all these countries happened to vote in their right/left wing parties or is something else going on

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

It's not global. Go get the Wikipedia page of "homelessness by country". It's not global. It's not the case in Finland or Vietnam for instance.

[-] Bear_pile@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I think they are referring to the phenomenon that seems to be taking place where far right politicians seem to be gaining ground in many countries across the globe

[-] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The reason for extremism gaining traction is relatively known, but OP was questioning the more subtle “conservative”-leaning parties being in power globally (seemingly) for the past decade at least. That’s somewhat harder to explain. For example, it’s harder to explain how most western countries became neo-liberal at the end of the 90s.

Extremism gains traction when there’s societal divide with at least one of the divisions significantly poorer than the other.

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