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‘Truly shameful’ figures show more than 5,000 disabled people spent time sleeping on London’s streets last year

By John Pring on 16th May 2024 Category: Housing

‘Truly shameful’ figures show more than 5,000 disabled people spent time sleeping on London’s streets last year
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New figures that show more than 5,000 disabled people spent time sleeping on the streets of London last year are “truly shameful”, according to the capital’s leading disabled people’s organisation. The figures, secured by Disability News Service (DNS) through a freedom […]

Disabled people living on the streets, yards from former DWP offices

By John Pring on 11th April 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled people living on the streets, yards from former DWP offices
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Some of the hundreds of disabled people left homeless on London’s streets have described how they came to be living in tents just yards from where the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used to have many of its offices. An […]

Disabled woman fears universal credit stress could see her return to institutions

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled woman fears universal credit stress could see her return to institutions
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A disabled woman who spent 37 years living in mental health institutions and hostels, including time sleeping in doorways, fears the flawed universal credit system will cause her to be evicted from her flat back onto the streets. It is only […]

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