Friday, May 15, 2020

Homeless in London.



Tom, a disabled army veteran, sits outside in his regular spot at Embankment tube station. ‘No one stops. Even the people I see every day, people who used to have a chat or give me a bit change,’ he told me. He believes this is down to news stories on the TV reporting that all the homeless have been put up in hotels, so those left on the streets ‘must be bad people’. He has applied three times to be put into one of the hotel rooms being made available during lockdown but has so far been turned down




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