[Leica] photographing the homeless "smug Europeans"

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

Looks like I got the number a bit wrong, and it's England only - but here's 
the official estimate of rough sleepers in June 2006 - 502. See 
http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1150131

Still don't believe it...

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, 20 January, 2007 11:28:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] photographing the homeless "smug Europeans"


>From what I read recently there are at least 1700 young people ( 12 
-17) living rough in London - runaways, for want of a better term. Add 
the hard-line tramps, bag-ladies, alcoholics, junkies and destitutes 
you'll probably get a figure of nearer to 10000 in London alone. Even 
though the Big Issue and other projects have helped a lot of people to 
help themselves.
Add to this again figures of the unintentionally homeless, homeless at 
home and families in temporary accommodation 
you get an impression of what life is like for low income 
persons/families in the UK.
London is an exceptional case, but other large cities, Leeds, Liverpool, 
Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield etc are all not far behind.
The the figures concern people registered by local authorities, there 
are also masses of itinerants, so called "Travellers", roaming the 
country too.

Here are the definitions and categories of homelessness in the UK up to 
2001 - the figures for the unintentionally homeless (registered victims 
of poverty, unemployment, family break-ups etc.) are astounding but true:
http://www.cuhp.org/admin/EditDocStore/UK_shortpaper_Paris.pdf
Douglas

Bill Larsen wrote:
> Nick Roberts wrote:
>
>> I heard a report recently that claimed there are only around 300 
>> rough sleepers left in the UK. I don't believe that for a moment, but 
>> there certainly do seem to be a lot less than there used to be, and 
>> then centered really on the big cities. This has to be largely down 
>> to the effect of things like "Big Issue".
>> Does that mean that homelessness has gone away here? Does it buggery. 
>> Just that it's not as visible - there's probably at least as much 
>> misery in the post-modern version. Hope that doesn't sound too smug...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>  
>>
> Think of it as "New speak" (apologies to Orwell who got what is 
> happening in the U.S. right)
> Just start figuring out the subcategories of  "homeless."
>
>
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