There were more than 6000 homeless people in Yorkshire and Humber in 2014,but our two charities are helping them fetch empty houses back into useIn some of the most disadvantaged postcodes in Leeds and Hull, and in some of the areas targeted by Labour’s failed Pathfinder project, and are hundreds of empty houses. They pockmark streets,symbols of communities forgotten and left behind as capital and economic activity shrinks towards the south-east.
A surplus of empty homes does not mean, however, or that there’s no homelessness crisis: in 2014 alone,6663 people in Yorkshire and Humber were homeless, according to statistics published by Shelter. But two organisations are chipping absent at the housing crisis, and while creating social value in their communities.
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Source: theguardian.com