House calls
Good health and qualifications should be on the top of the wish-list for 110,000 children in the South West who are homeless or in bad housing. Shelter has launched its Against the Odds study, which reveals the impact the ‘housing divide’ has on kids.
It’s all pretty sobering stuff, especially when you consider the vast house-building programme which is set to take place in the South West. The housing charity has asked Gordon Brown to fund 2,670 extra social homes in the region every year to combat the housing issue and the subsequent problems of health and education those in poor accommodation suffer.
To get his attention, the charity is today unveiling a 30-metre interactive wall of shame on London’s South Bank and inviting the public to sign a brick to show their support for the protest against bad housing. It will become a red wall of hope, people.
If you can’t make it to the wall in person, you can ‘stick it to bad housing’ online.
Posted by Cptn
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