The Government has repealed the Victorian era Vagrancy act and seem to want to replace it with Orwellian legislation that will fine or imprison 'nuisance' rough sleepers.

Charities supporting people experiencing homelessness know this isn't the solution.
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New Office for National Statistics (ONS) housing affordability stats for England & Wales out today. This chart emphasises a huge societal problem - since '97 house prices have grown by 4.5x while earnings only doubled.

Houses shouldn't be lining pockets faster than our labour but have been winning the race.

Today's official statistics paint a bleak picture of poverty in the UK

3 in 10 children live in poverty - but even that hides some shockingly high levels of poverty in some groups

Child poverty has increased in Bangladeshi households, where 2 in 3 children now live in poverty

Great to talk to Jennifer-Anne Scott about how we urgently need to see more protection through the Renters Reform Bill so that renters have more security, stability and affordability with their homes.

But this feels disingenuous from the govt when we're still waiting on a 2019 promise:

Department for Work and Pensions Institute for Fiscal Studies Here's the chart on food insecurity

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New poverty stats were out this morning and show…

-very little change in levels of poverty in Scotland
-we are almost certain to miss the Interim Scottish Child Poverty Targets

This thread will cover some of the key takeaways from today’s release 🧵

More support for low-income households through our social security system is a CLEAR route to reducing poverty. The payments saved 1.3m from falling into poverty. So it is deeply worrying that support is coming to an end when the COL crisis isn't over, and millions are struggling