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Just weeks after thousands of rough sleepers were housed for lockdown, the Tories are throwing them back on the street
On a dismal late morning at the end of January, I took the train up to Manchester from London to meet Hendrix Lancaster, one of the founding members of the homelessness charity Coffee4Craig. The charity’s work has its roots in a personal tragedy. In September 2013, Hendrix’s brother-in-law Craig White died of a heroin overdose in Cardiff, where he had been living on the streets after a relationship had broken down. He was just 37. 
My thoughts recently turned to Coffee4Craig when, days before the UK officially went into lockdown, the government pledged £3.2m to local authorities to house people who were either sleeping on the streets or thought to be at high risk of sleeping rough during the pandemic. For the clients of Coffee4Craig, the news of the “Everyone In” scheme would have been a relief in a city where the official number of rough sleepers has jumped from seven to 123 over the past decade. In a stroke the government had taken that number down to zero. Continue reading...