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After photos of metal spikes designed to prevent homeless people from sleeping in posh London neighborhoods surfaced online, people have been venting their outrage with controversial invention all over the social media.
Homelessness rife in UK: Research shows millions are paycheck away from losing home
Photographs of metal studs on the doorsteps of a luxury flat building on Southwark Bridge Road in central London spurred an “anti-homeless spikes” hashtag campaign by Ethical Pioneer Twitter page.
- However, London resident Nathan FitzPatrick tweeted after talking to locals outside the building that only one person could confirm homeless were sleeping there – and that was a woman and a child.
“It is a scandal that anyone should sleep on the streets in 21st century Britain. Yet over the last three years rough sleeping has risen steeply across the country and by a massive 75% in London. Behind these numbers are real people struggling with a lack of housing, cuts to benefits and cuts to homelessness services to help them rebuild their lives,” said Katharine Sacks-Jones, head of policy and campaigns at Crisis. [...]
http://rt.com/news/164524-spikes-homeless-london-outrage/
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Inquiry on anti-homeless furnitures in Paris. Devices placed in front of banks and representative places physically prevent homeless to stay and begg.
Those who resist can be called the "fakirs" of public places. Realised by Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté, Production Canal Marches 2003 duration : 6'. More on site : gilfakir.com
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-London Mayor Johnson calls for 'anti-homeless spikes' to be removed-
SvaraRaderaJune 10, 2014
London Mayor Boris Johnson distanced himself on Monday from the installation of metal spikes designed to prevent homeless from sleeping at a luxury building in central London. The “anti-homeless spikes” have prompted wide condemnation on social media.
Photographs of metal studs on the doorsteps of a luxury block of flats on Southwark Bridge Road in central London first spurred outrage in London and online on Saturday.
An anonymous resident of the residential complex told the Telegraph, that “there was a homeless man asleep there about six weeks ago. ‘Then about two weeks ago all of a sudden studs were put up outside. I presume it is to deter homeless people from sleeping there.”
Now top city politicians have joined the chorus against the spikes.
London Mayor Boris Johnson’s office called on the building’s managers to remove the spikes immediately. [...]
http://rt.com/news/164952-anti-homeless-spikes-remove/
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