Provide enough basic winter shelters for rough sleepers in all British cities

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

The number of rough sleepers has increased in recent years with not enough affordable housing or mental health services and more benefit sanctions and cuts. In winter the situation is life threatening for them. Our country is rich enough to provide basic winter shelters for these vulnerable people.

We call upon the government to take immediate action to provide basic winter shelters for rough sleepers to prevent deaths from hypothermia and illness. People may become homeless because of family break up, mental health issues combined with cuts in services, benefit sanctions and cuts, lack of affordable housing, addictions and for other reasons. This could happen to any person. The government should provide enough basic shelters in winter so no one freezes to death in 21st Century Britain.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

This petition is similar to yours:
A Law to give temp shelter to all rough sleepers if temps are predicted at Zero.

Timeline

29 Jan 2017	Petition opened for signatures
31 Jan 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Jan 2017

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