{"id":246885,"date":"2023-09-18T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T10:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=246885"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T10:11:41","slug":"streets-of-london","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/streets-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’d walked around big London rail stations like Victoria before the pandemic, you’d have seen streets like dormitories, lined with people in sleeping bags. <\/p>\n

Then, when the state wanted people off the streets during lockdowns, accommodation was miraculously found.<\/p>\n

Now, around one in 50 living in London are thought to be homeless. The cross-party group London Councils estimates <\/a>that nearly 170,000 people in the capital are living in hostels, bedsits, or temporary accommodation, a probable increase of 17,000 in a single year. The group thinks this includes over 83,000 children. Many more people are sofa-surfing or ‘roofless’, ie, sleeping rough.<\/p>\n

So much for caring, sharing capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-246885","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/246885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}