Wealthy London Neighborhood Installs Metal Spikes To Keep The Homeless Away

by veya_victaous Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:16 am

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A block of privately-owned apartments in a tony area of London has installed metal studs on the ground to keep homeless people from sleeping there.

Similar to the window spikes many buildings use to deter pigeons from roosting, the studs reportedly appeared last month and have inspired outrage on Twitter.

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/08/3446334/london-anti-homelessness-spikes/

by Lone Wolf Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:05 pm

Raggamuffin wrote:
Why doesn't the Government employ people to go around at night to find these homeless people and try to help them? They're mostly single people - mostly men I think, who don't appear to deserve any help because they don't have children with them.

Why do so many people think that only children and elderly people are worth helping? It annoys me that everyone bleats on about bedroom tax, child poverty, blah, blah, blah, and nobody says a word about these people who are having to sleep in a doorway!

JUST AS long as they don't employ the likes of L'ilAndy, smelly', Tommy, nicko' and Drinky to perform such social duties...

THAT lot would be more likely to arm themselves with baseball bats and pick handles,
and attempt to run the homeless out of town.. bounce

by Guest Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:10 pm

See the government did do something to try and help - it decided it would stop paying people benefit if they had empty bedrooms in the hope that they would either move to accommodation without the extra bedrooms or offer those bedrooms for rent to people currently homeless.

However what happened was everyone who screams about homelessness promptly started screaming about how not paying people with spare bedrooms benefits to keep the bedrooms was unfair.

by nicko Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:11 pm

Why don't you go away and read a book lurker, something like Janet and JOHN.I asked you before don't include me in your infantile rants.

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