In today's Issue

Freedom 
Facts about Homelessness
Born this Day
Joke of the Day
Amaaaaazing fact
Finish with a Song

People talk about freedom

But what do they mean

Freedom for decisions

To pursue your own dream

I know freedom

What it’s like to be free

With no responsibilities

Just I.  myself and me

A romantic image

I’m King of the road

But it’s not that, No house,

no home no dry abode

Freedom to be alone

Freedom from love

Freedom from care

Freedom from above

People make assumptions

Based on what they see

Drunk, drugged lazy

Well that wasn’t me

Made redundant

No fault of my own

lost my home to bankers

who pulled all my loans

A partner who gave up

To her cash machine

From £50 k to nothing

Left with freedom but not a bean.

Freedom is just another

Word with nothing left to lose

Freedom to be nothing

Dead within the blues.

So enjoy your freedom

That sits in your head

Whilst you snuggle up

Free from freedom in your own warm bed

neville raper 2017

Facts about Homelessness

Not everyone who becomes homeless is entitled to be housed.

In England councils only have a duty to find somewhere for a person to live if they have a ‘priority need’. This includes families with children, people in an emergency after a flood or fire, or who are “vulnerable” for various other reasons. In addition, they must not have deliberately done or failed to do anything that caused them to become homeless.

Around 58,000 households were accepted by councils as entitled to be housed in 2015/16. This number has been rising since 2009/10, and is up by a third since 2010/11.

However, it’s 57% below the level of 2003/04, when 135,000 households were accepted.

People who are legally homeless are “rarely” on the streets, according to the Department for Communities and Local Government. We don’t have definitive statistics for how many people are sleeping rough.

In England the number of people sleeping rough is a snapshot taken in autumn each year. Councils count or estimate the number of people sleeping rough in their area. Most authorities talk to local agencies and give an estimate.

Last year, 3,600 people were estimated to be sleeping rough in England. This is 30% higher than in 2014, and double the estimate of 1,800 for 2010 (the earliest comparable data).

Born this Day

Emelia Earhart - 1897 - Female Pilot
Lynda Carter - 1951 - Wonder Woman !!
Jennifer Lopez - 1979

Random Joke of the Day

We now live in an age where it's more important to delete history, than it is to make it.

In 2014 Netflix spent £($) 0.00 Marketing its online video service, but, over 6 million people used it.

Finish with a Song

Given the theme today, this is Janis Joplin with Me and Bobby McGee.