New PM says government can bring back hope to Britain, and launches drive to end rough sleeping at the earliest opportunity
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The Prime Minister used his first speech in office to launch an urgent national drive to end rough sleeping at the earliest opportunity, setting out a bold ambition to tackle one of the starkest injustices in the country. This will be backed from day one by an additional £340 million – taking overall funding to record levels.
  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Somehow I’d never run across the phrase “rough sleeping” as a term for homelessness before.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      They are technically slightly different terms. Someone can be homeless by choice. They could also be homeless, but have somewhere to stay (e.g. a shelter). Rough sleeping refers to people who have to sleep outside, without it being a choice on their part.

      The term has had a lot of creep. It’s akin to how the word retarded changed from a medical description to an insult.

    • Virtvirt588@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Its really such a poor choice of words. Why try to invent new words for the exact same thing? The only thing that comes to mind in this case is strategic manipulation.

      • scholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        It’s a subcategory of homelessness, because homelessness takes many forms not all of which involve sleeping on the street.