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    WE NEED GOVERNMENT ACTION NOW TO HALT A WINTER OF CATASTROPHE

    Aug 08, 2022 3 minutes
    Gordon Brown

    A poverty time-bomb is ticking across Britain as we head into autumn 2022.

    Homelessness is now rising fast. The Big Issue reported just this week that 227,000 people are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness – rough sleeping, sleeping in vans and sheds and stuck in B&Bs across England, Scotland and Wales.

    And those numbers will sadly be rising as food and fuel bills soar and rent arrears force hard-pressed tenants out of their homes now that the support keeping a roof

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