Focus On Homelessness In London Ahead Of Publication Of The Rowntree Report On Poverty

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 24: 61-year-old Johan Johanssen, originally from Sweden, who has been homeless for 14 years, begs by Tottenham Court Road station on January 24, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. With the 2023 Rowntree report on poverty due to be published later this week, last year's report found more than one in five of the UK population was living in poverty. Homeless charity Shelter recently stated that one in 58 Londoners is homeless, far higher than the national figure of one in 208. This is, in part, due to the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the capital. In 2022 around 271,000 people were homeless on any given night across the UK, Shelter estimates that almost half of them are children. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)