Britain's Homelessness Map Is Missing Rural Britain
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Britain's Homelessness Map Is Missing Rural Britain

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Across rural England, homeless outreach teams spend the same portion of their time travelling as they do actually assisting people. Most often, a few workers are typically asked to cover a county's worth of market towns, which are located twenty to thirty miles apart in all cardinal directions, with no equivalent of a city centre to walk through or no dense cluster of shelters, day centres and advice services to fall back on. A single visit can take an entire morning. There is a car, a rota,...