Westminster has the highest level of rough sleepers of any local authority in the country. Over 2,570 people were identified as homeless in the last census.
Today, at the Abbey Centre, council members and community leaders attended the first ever conference to discuss homelessness in Westminster.
A range of speakers shared their experiences on what has worked and what hasn’t, in an attempt to help tackle the extreme homelessness problem in the borough.
Volunteer & rough sleeper project coordinator, Caz Gandy-Brown who organised the conference, told City News that the event was crucial as she has personally seen the number of homeless people attending her weekly Hot Meal Service double in the last two years.
Gandy-Brown attributed the rise in homelessness in the area to the idea that many of the homeless in London believed that the streets of Westminster were “paved with gold.”
Westminster councillor Abby Moore said that she was attending todays conference to hear what the community was doing to support the homeless. She was also there in order to network and “develop partnerships” so that the council and community could “help tackle the issue together”.
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Westminster has the highest level of rough sleepers of any local authority in the country. Over 2,570 people were identified as homeless in the last census.
Today, at the Abbey Centre, council members and community leaders attended the first ever conference to discuss homelessness in Westminster.
A range of speakers shared their experiences on what has worked and what hasn’t, in an attempt to help tackle the extreme homelessness problem in the borough.
Volunteer & rough sleeper project coordinator, Caz Gandy-Brown who organised the conference, told City News that the event was crucial as she has personally seen the number of homeless people attending her weekly Hot Meal Service double in the last two years.
Gandy-Brown attributed the rise in homelessness in the area to the idea that many of the homeless in London believed that the streets of Westminster were “paved with gold.”
Westminster councillor Abby Moore said that she was attending todays conference to hear what the community was doing to support the homeless. She was also there in order to network and “develop partnerships” so that the council and community could “help tackle the issue together”.
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