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A Message To The Surplus Population

On 13 April 202513 April 2025 By Bruce Davies

It is time to suspend our belief and start looking to the things that we have always considered as fantasy. There are indeed difficult decisions to be made and they are being made on our behalf by and for the benefit of those who have less distance to fall if it all goes wrong.

We must not allow ourselves to be assigned the future of a surplus population.

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Council secures £560K to support street homeless

On 21 December 2020 By Press Release

Funding of over £560,000 has been secured by Leeds City Council to support a range of on-going proactive work in the city to help rough sleepers tackle drug and alcohol issues. Following the successful bid to Public Health England (PHE), plans are now being progressed with Forward Leeds, which is

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Nowhere To Go: Voices from the street

On 31 October 2020 By Ed Carlisle

Last Sunday (25 October 2020) I spent an evening helping the Homeless Leeds Support team, run by Dave Hedley, in the city centre, and talking with people who were sleeping rough. These were some of their stories and insights: Levi: “I got caught in a spiral of short-term private lets,

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Nowhere To Go: The homelessness crisis in our communities

On 30 October 202030 October 2020 By Ed Carlisle

Over the next week we will be running a series of articles about homelessness , hearing people’s real experiences of live on the streets and ‘sofa surfing’ and find out about services that are trying to help people in crisis. Here Ed Carlisle sets the scene: Winter is upon us,