Homelessness and Poverty in Southampton

Southampton city council's new "homelessness strategy" is a five year plan (2024-2029) set to tackle those who are on the brink of homelessness and to help those already living in poverty. Find out what Hamwic Street Kitchen is doing to help those in need.
Olympia Akhamrich - Winchester News Online 2024

[@charlesflett2818]

There’s something deeply wrong with this country.

[@flyhi2773]

It’s over shoot, the 1972 study, Limits to growth. Proving horribly accurate it forecast economic decline to begin around 2020 leading to civilisation collapse. The worlds population reaching a point it consumes resources at an unsustainable rate. It was 1.5 billion in 1900. 2.5 billion in 1950 - and thereafter, it entered over shoot. 6 billion in 2000. 8 plus billion today. It forecast it. Not just UK, America, Canada, Australia, Europe, all Governments around or over 100% of GDP in debt. All built on cheap oil. The study has been revisited. Still to start in 2020 but the later studies, using more up to date data revealed the collapse would be a lot faster, by 2050 not 2100. Look at a population graph, humans numbered 2-250 million people for thousands of years until 1600 then technology saw it rise to 1.5 billion by 1900. Oil really kicks in around 1950. It rockets but it’s like deer on an island, they got there by ice freezing, but trapped by no ice for years. Ok, initially plenty of grass the population boomed but eventually they consumed grass faster than it could grow. Hungry, they started eating the roots too. The population collapsed. That’s over shoot. And we’re not immune.

[@johnthompson7105]

English in poverty foreign criminals in 5star hotels

[@aileenburke8946]

Same here in Ireland 😢

[@user-ei2lm6us2e]

It has gone back to the 19th century

[@flyhi2773]

West real economy has declined, to try and cover it up we have huge deficit spending and roughly 40% are dependent on taxes for an income or in other words, the state is too big and it’s bleeding everyone dry. Everyone except the very wealthy.

[@alostpilgrimsjourney5953]

Vote REFORM and save Jolly ole England!

[@JanetJames-dw6xo]

I wish i could win the lottery and be able to help the homeless.

[@sphinx1017]

Our PM is rich enough to do that personally and professionally. He just chooses not to.

[@lynnedavies5884]

​@@sphinx1017That's why he's not going to be Prime Minister next week.

[@mrslondy]

Amen ❤

[@Tomo-hb2tq]

It takes the piss that the boat ppl get a nice warm 4 star hotel and free food and money when our own are like this it should be our own 1st

[@jablot5054]

You could always move to a war zone that this country has created for no other reason than greed.

[@Tomo-hb2tq]

@@jablot5054 Been there done that was in the 2003 Iraq war on the front line . then went back on 2005/06 then went back again in 2008

[@mrslondy]

​@@Tomo-hb2tqso now is their turn to come to YOUR country and ruin it 😂

[@deankirby7237]

The country has gone to the dogs.

[@user-ei2lm6us2e]

Blair and his Klaus Schwab lords

[@flossydonnellon4893]

Councils all over the country should be focused n the homeless in the UK ,when you’ve done that then spread your generosity to those from elsewhere not prioritising them before and leaving our own on the streests

[@dereckjtbear2175]

I'm fortunate and Blessed to Be out of Southampton,Was homeless and Council is useless So I left with car packed to roof and found housing within a month in Scotland, beautiful countryside here so much that I Regret Not relocating sooner.

[@patriciadrury8557]

How can they give those immigrants whi invade our land and our privacy hotels snd our poor and brave veterans dleep on the streets

[@Luna_tic68]

Makes me 🤮. Our poor homeless people struggling to eat and our so called government bring in all these illegals and they get 5 star treatment! Will you vote for any of them again. I certainly won't be.

[@Victoria-dk3nv]

😢😢 this country is broken. No dignity for people at all. It's so sad. I hope the government is happy with itself

[@milesbrown8016]

Govt want this, believe you me…And they want anybody illegal. Otherwise it would not be happening

[@Victoria-dk3nv]

@@milesbrown8016 very true 😪

[@flyhi2773]

When you say Government you actually need to realise 40% of the country constitute Government. Judges, police, teachers, health care, tons of bureaucrats. And yeah, no one cares about anyone but themselves, their next pay cheque and mortgage payment. That’s all they care about. Even though they will find, they’re not immune.

[@susanleitch8649]

If there's free food on offer, the queue will be huge. It's a dreadful thing that people are forced into this just to be able to eat.

[@veronicaladd5821]

And while our poor homeless people are given nothing, the migrants live in 4 star hotels!!

[@carlowingfield7743]

This will lead to civil unrest .

[@Lara__]

That's so strange because there are so many vacancies for so many jobs. We need factory workers, fruit pickers, and the list goes on and on. After Brexit, it's up to the Brits to go do these jobs.

[@ravenblack2262]

It's not as clear cut as that , a lot of these jobs are 0 hours contract you are only employed when you are needed, I did it for 8 years you cannot plan anything and you don't know if you can pay your bills next month or not .

[@allykhan8594]

​@@ravenblack2262but that's the reality, if you need to pick apples you expect to be paid in december?

[@allykhan8594]

​@@ravenblack2262.p.s most of planet works like that.

[@linda-nl8ib]

Going for a job isn't that easy Nobody will take on someone who is better than them NOBODY NO company will accommodate someone's first job if you only have partime hours at another job Atm I am being bullied ay job where the manager is looking after her friend

[@deankirby7237]

If you're over 55, they won't employ you. They want kids to pay minimum wages.

[@Capricorn2800]

Reason to vote Reform Conservatives don’t care and Labour would rather help the rest of the world

[@anthonyclegg1511]

Reform wont do anything, they will carry on doing the same, 30p Lee proved that.

[@susancorlett9768]

If they have time to queue for free food given out they can do a job then. Trouble with this country we are too soft. I left home at 19,no benefits, never been kept by no one cos I have always worked. Don't work,no accommodation, food etc.

[@mdem64]

how old are you now? and how was the system when you left home. I left home at 17 and did just fine too but that was over 25 years ago. it is so much harder now and there are far more people and things cost so much more.

[@susancorlett9768]

@@mdem64 left home at 19,still working from that age,never been on benefits, kept by anyone.

[@backgroundknowledgeisevery3089]

Maybe people shouldn’t have voted for Margaret Thatcher in 1979, who more or less ended house-building by the state and opened the floodgates for land banking housing corporations who build as slowly to keep the prices as high as possible. The same reason Canada, Australia, the USA and New Zealand have a huge housing shortage.

[@Cazgirl-hq4hi]

The witch has gone now,but her legacy carries on.

[@keithhooper6123]

Blame Tony B liar,who greatly increased immigration,which Labour and Cons would all do nothing to stop.

[@yiabwstetienne7474]

Yeah, nothing to do with 12 Million more People in the Country is it?........🙄

[@user-vb1zk2yg5l]

goverment telling us get a job bloody where employers are getting fussy im 64 and getting hassle employers only want young people so they can exploit them they sent me on a computer course for 12 weeks as if its going help me find a computer job at 64 its insane

[@carolinejayes157]

If you are able bodied there is only one way out of poverty to work!.

[@Cazgirl-hq4hi]

Tory Britain…I thought the days of the abyss had gone along with social darwisim …vote them out .

[@KiloKnog]

Jump on dinghy soon get everything

[@Dan1418]

Why homeless? The government should stop the universal credit and get those lazy people back to work! Why we pay taxes for them? These are no other countries like us 10% of the total population or 6.4 millions people on universal credit !

[@brianking3565]

No wonder the Irish want unification

[@stevemartindale8745]

Thier homeless because they're not allowed hotel rooms.

[@dread-zgred]

😢😢😢😢

[@jacquelineithell307]

Mostly British citizens l see

[@flyhi2773]

It’s Southampton. Film it in London or Birmingham be mostly immigrants. It does affect everyone if truth be told. Asians are a little different though, most around me live in multi generation homes, and extend. My neighbours house twice it’s original size. Two brothers, wives, children quite grown up now, mid to late teens and original owner all live there. Same next house down. And house opposite mine too. I’m selling up moving next week. Downsizing. Getting too expensive

[@Bazball-vg2bh]

Too many immigrants

[@jablot5054]

Too many lazy Brits wanting benefits and free handouts. I live in a rural area and the local farmer has to plough crops back into the soil because he can't get workers even offering £15 an hour and accomodation! These people should move with the work like the Europeans used to do.

[@kevinwilde]

thatchers diabolical legacy continues to linger on.

[@BigRed2]

As long as the Royal family is taken care of i couldn’t care less about the peasants

[@Yoyo-vl2zx]

What have the Royals given you ?

[@BigRed2]

@@Yoyo-vl2zx Royals built the UK while the poor have only weakened it

[@linda-nl8ib]

​@@BigRed2how exactly? Can you please tell me .

[@yellowbird5411]

It is always the poor who build a country. They are the ones who work in the mines, lay the railroad, work in the factories, fix the machines, build the skyscrapers, build the ships, farm the land, fish the seas and wholesale the goods to the big companies for the international corporation retail market. The poor working class are the heartbeat of any nation. Without them there would be nothing, including the "royal" or ruling class, because we would all live in caves weaving straw baskets. The royal class or ruling class got there on the backs of slave labor and low paid military to protect them. Endless blessings to the working poor, volunteers and slave labor, who have made all nations what they are.

[@Yoyo-vl2zx]

@@yellowbird5411 well said. 💪go yellow bird 💛

[@mrslondy]

Keep on supporting Ukraine 😂

[@Imdad-sg3qt]

Southampton iz a frikin ghetto hail yo from da ghettoooooo

[@Imdad-sg3qt]

Da police from Afghanistan watching sneaky ee Enzo mares sca

[@Imdad-sg3qt]

Enzo mares sca snakes we watching sneaky ee Enzo da police g watching yo

[@Thomas.Bolleiro]

Keep voting for liberals