Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, CPRE analysis shows

Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, CPRE analysis shows

Posted on Jan 09, 2024 by jsw  | Tags: Rough Sleeping

The times we live in #1 by Tim Dennell

The hidden rural housing crisis continues to worsen along with its tragic impacts on people and families. This includes rates of rough sleeping, which new CPRE analysis has revealed are worse in rural areas than many of our towns and cities.

Levels of homelessness have leapt 40% in the countryside in just five years. This crisis is being fed by record house prices, stagnating wages, huge housing waiting lists and a proliferation of second homes and short-term lets.

To read more, including CPRE’s report ‘Unraveling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England’, go to https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/rough-sleeping-in-countryside-higher-than-some-urban-areas-analysis-shows/.

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