Today, new figures from the Combined Homelessness and Information Network have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July and September. This is a 29% increase on the same number from April to June.

🎄This year, get into the Christmas spirit & volunteer with #CrisisAtChristmas. We need all kinds of people including, Chefs, Doctors, Entertainers, IT experts and even heroic Gophers. Help someone start to live a life beyond homelessness. More info: crisis.org.uk/christmasvolun…

We are told The Govt is proposing to replace The Vagrancy Act of 1824, with laws banning the use of tents. Please don’t do this. People will die in extreme weather. Instead we can work on solutions? There are plenty.

Sleeping on the streets is not a lifestyle choice. We don’t have nearly enough affordable homes & rents are soaring, leaving people destitute and forced to sleep rough. [🧵1/4] ft.com/content/ccf9c2…

At 16, I was placed in a bedsit with two older men who were both alcoholics. The place was dangerous and unsuitable for a 16 year old boy leaving care and starting an independent life. No one listened when I begged for somewhere safe to live. I ended up falling behind on my bills

Here's another for you Suella Braverman MP. 18 year old boy from Enfield. His Mum dies and he has no family. He ends up homeless living in a shed. He gets my contact details and I help him. I put him in the Travelodge on the A10 for 2 weeks until I can find him a room in a housing

Chris Wild Suella Braverman I met a young lad who lived with his Mum and his Mum died. The council wouldn't allow him to take on the flat and was evicted from his home. He sofa surfed for a while but then out stayed his welcome. Being 18 he had no guarantor to rent private. He ended up homeless and jobless

An essential eight minutes of television. If these were the conditions for an American try to imagine what it's like to be an average civilian in Gaza right now.

I get asked alot if I've written a book or get messages saying I should write a book, I have written a book based on my childhood undiagnosed autistic in the 70s and Ryan's childhood from when he was aged 3 and recently diagnosed autistic, we were homeless together,it's about the

A huge thank you to the lovely staff member at Bar Trend this morning. I'm sorry I didn't even ask your name. You saved my day. 💐