ABSTRACT
HOMELESSNESS IN BRITAIN is not new. It has been with us for centuries.
‘Time and time again through the centuries the number of homeless people has increased as a direct result of factors such as economic downturn, the cessation of war and climatic catastrophe. The response of those in authority is to clamp down even harder on the increased numbers ‘of no fixed abode’, regardless of how valid their reasons may be for having found themselves in their predicament’.1
