The Vagrancy Act 1824 has just been repealed, it's no longer an offence to sleep rough.
Hull City charged
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That’s a positive but I was just tacking on to a previous poster replying to Drew’s post about poverty never being criminalised.
Not sure it is a positive.
Imo, there should be something that makes it wrong to sleep rough and to refuse help.
It doesn't help anyone (the rough sleeper, the council, the general public, society, etc) that people can choose to sleep endlessly in doorways etc. Maybe there is something(s) already in place, but I find it so wrong seeing homeless out on the streets and being allowed to turn down help.
isint some of that because the hostels etc can be incredibly awful places? that sleeping on the street is preferable
but also drug addiction is very hard to break
Some young lasses on the Streets in Glasgow refuse it due to the environment there being asked to stay in...Sad situation when they feel safer on the Streets than they do in hostels.