Rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing in Britain have pushed more people into homelessness amid the biggest drop in living standards since the Second World War.
The housing crisis will be one of the decisive topics of the next parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom. For this reason, the charity ‘Crisis’ has recently helped homeless people to register on the electoral roll so that they can make their voices heard, British media report.
Rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing on British lands have pushed more people to become homelessin the middle of the greatest decline in living standards since World War II.
Many voters feel disillusioned and feel that homelessness and its struggles have been forgotten by politicians through division.
“All governments have always said: we are going to do this, we are going to do that. They don’t do enough for the homeless. It’s like they’ve forgotten us,” said a homeless man named Trevor at the beginning of the month.
Elderly people looking for help
Nick Bradshaw, director of the Brent Crisis centre, said that in the last six months he had seen the number of people approaching the association increase by between 40% and 50%. looking for help. “This is huge,” she declared.
Thus, he added that more and more older people, aged 60, 70 and 80, who have lived in unsafe accommodation. Recent research indicates that more than 300,000 people across the UK lack permanent accommodationincluding those who sleep on the street, live in cars, stay in shelters or temporarily seek help from family and friends, according to Homewards program sources.
Millions of people across the UK continue to suffer the consequences of high temperatures. food prices, energy and housing. The persistent cost of living crisis It is one of the main concerns of voters regarding the parliamentary elections, in which they will elect the legislators who will occupy the 650 seats in the House of Commons. The leader of the political party that wins a majority, alone or in a coalition, will become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Although inflation has returned to almost normal levels after skyrocketing in recent years, electricity bills and items on store shelves continue to have a higher price than they did before the pandemic, when they began their steep rise.
Although salaries are starting to rise, mortgages and rents have skyrocketed along with interest rates, taking away a large part of the income of many households.
Labor advantage over the Conservatives in voting intention
Polls continue to give Keir Starmer’s centre-left opposition Labor Party a double digit lead about Sunak’s Conservativeswho have been in power for 14 years, with five different prime ministers.
Labor promised reactivate the economyafter years of slow growth, through the establishment of a new industrial policy, investment in infrastructure, reduction of urban bureaucracy and the construction of 1.5 million new homes.
Conservatives focused on reduce immigration y lower taxespromising £17 billion (€20 billion) in tax cuts by 2030. An amount that would be paid for, in large part, by reducing social spending.
