Sleeping Rough
Hiya
How is everybody? Guess whose coming to Tassie in two months – Me! I am waaaay excited.
The weekend was great, I spent most of the time shopping in Kingston (the UK version) then later on Claire and I had a couple of bottles of wine then headed to Elk for the evening. Met up with some friends who we spent the evening with. Claire proceeded to wrap herself around some tall black haired bloke and could be found in a darkened corner.
Flat update: Claire has found someone for her half of our room – Soph. She already lives at the flat but is thinking of buying a place so she wants to spend less money and our room is like £100 less rent per month. It will be so sad to see Clairsey go but its good news for me in that I know who is moving into the room as I have lived with Soph since November.
Found out some surprising news. I have always been quite emotionally affected by the hundreds of homeless people along the streets of London. As you walk along they reach out, begging for money usually, sometimes food. I had one little lady that came up and asked for 50p for the bus just the other day. I gave her the money then as I walked away I looked back and noticed that she didn’t even get on the bus. That made me think so I decided to look into the facts. Turns out 70% of those that are arrested for begging tested positive for Class A drugs. Money given innocently for a bus fare or a cup of tea is helping feed their habit. It stated that although those who needed it could have a free bed in hostels across London, people actually choose to sleep on the streets. Of those arrested 42% gave a fixed address and the last official count identified that there were only 169 people sleeping rough in the whole city.* I find it quite shocking that people resort to sleeping rough (and let me tell you in London it is rough) just to feed their addiction.
rachixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Civic Watch Newsletter Victoria Spring 2006.
How is everybody? Guess whose coming to Tassie in two months – Me! I am waaaay excited.
The weekend was great, I spent most of the time shopping in Kingston (the UK version) then later on Claire and I had a couple of bottles of wine then headed to Elk for the evening. Met up with some friends who we spent the evening with. Claire proceeded to wrap herself around some tall black haired bloke and could be found in a darkened corner.
Flat update: Claire has found someone for her half of our room – Soph. She already lives at the flat but is thinking of buying a place so she wants to spend less money and our room is like £100 less rent per month. It will be so sad to see Clairsey go but its good news for me in that I know who is moving into the room as I have lived with Soph since November.
Found out some surprising news. I have always been quite emotionally affected by the hundreds of homeless people along the streets of London. As you walk along they reach out, begging for money usually, sometimes food. I had one little lady that came up and asked for 50p for the bus just the other day. I gave her the money then as I walked away I looked back and noticed that she didn’t even get on the bus. That made me think so I decided to look into the facts. Turns out 70% of those that are arrested for begging tested positive for Class A drugs. Money given innocently for a bus fare or a cup of tea is helping feed their habit. It stated that although those who needed it could have a free bed in hostels across London, people actually choose to sleep on the streets. Of those arrested 42% gave a fixed address and the last official count identified that there were only 169 people sleeping rough in the whole city.* I find it quite shocking that people resort to sleeping rough (and let me tell you in London it is rough) just to feed their addiction.
rachixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Civic Watch Newsletter Victoria Spring 2006.
posted by Rachi @ 10:15 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:18 AM,
Cherae said…
Heya Rach,
Isn't it sad?
yeah L.A is not crash hot either. There are around 91,000 homeless people in LA alone but not so much in my area more in Central L.A and the tourist areas like Hollywood.
It's hard to complain about expenses like rent and groceries with these sort of things around you.
-Chaz
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