{"id":521,"date":"2023-11-10T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/?p=521"},"modified":"2023-11-10T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:52:59","slug":"kent-charity-condemn-home-secretarys-plans-to-ban-tents-for-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/2023\/11\/10\/kent-charity-condemn-home-secretarys-plans-to-ban-tents-for-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent charity condemn Home Secretary&#8217;s plans to ban tents for the homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:85% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Homeless-PKG-Website-3.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>VIDEO: Gillingham Street Angels Foodhub Manager Tracy Charlick    Credit: Oliver Small<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charities in Kent have hit out at Suella Braverman\u2019s proposal to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in urban areas as the government looks to tackle the rising numbers of rough sleepers on Britain\u2019s high streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the Home Secretary characterised rough sleeping as a, &#8220;lifestyle choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charities have warned of a growing homelessness crisis caused by a combination of rising rents, a shortage of social and affordable housing and the cost of living crisis leaving more people vulnerable to eviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: Gillingham Street Angels Foodhub Manager Tracy Charlick Credit: Oliver Small Charities in Kent have hit out at Suella Braverman\u2019s proposal to restrict the use of tents by homeless people in urban areas as the government looks to tackle the rising numbers of rough sleepers on Britain\u2019s high streets. This comes after the Home Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,68,50,98,25,44],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-charity","tag-cost-of-living","tag-government","tag-homeless","tag-kent","tag-medway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}