93. Homelessness, a needless tragedy
The
UK has 320,000 homeless people, according to latest Shelter numbers. I had to
double take when I saw that statistic. This is 1 in 200. Yet another European
statistic the UK leads handsomely, although of course, in this particular case
that adverb could not be more misleading. It is a huge social problem, and one
that only exists because the fifth richest country in the World has no will to
solve it. Many of the World’s billionaires live in London, untaxed. Many
corporate financial behemoths are based in London, paying little tax, if any. A
small percentage of this wealth, directed to homelessness, would eradicate it,
without downsides to the UK population and bringing huge improvements not only
to the lives of the 320,000, but to all of us who share (or not, as the case
may be) our society with them. Interestingly, I don’t think I’ve seen that
number quoted anywhere in the media. Yet another silent social problem in UK,
another area in which it is diverging from the rest of Europe
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