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  • Poverty is widespread: More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (21%) were in poverty in 2022/23 – 14.3 million people.

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty Report 2025

  • ... Destitution is widespread: around 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children.

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty Report 2025

  • Large and increasing numbers rely on foodbanks: More than 574,000 destitute people were supported by food banks in 2022, up from 214,000 in 2019

    The Guardian 2023

  • The benefits safety net is failing: a single adult on the basic £85 weekly rate of universal credit is by definition in severe hardship, falling below the £95 a week destitution threshold

  • Housing is in crisis: 17.5 million people are trapped by the housing emergency

    Shelter Report 2023

  • Homelessness is high and rising: Britain has by far the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world

    John Kurt CEO Hope Into Action Feb 2025

  • Social housing waiting lists are out of control: over 1.3 million households are on the social housing waiting list, and over 16,000 children are homeless in temporary accommodation

    Shelter March 2025

  • Rough sleeping is back after Covid: 4,667 people were recorded sleeping rough on a given night last autumn. The number of people sleeping rough in England has more than doubled since 2010

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  • Working people are homeless too; In England, almost a quarter of households facing homelessness have family members who are working

    ITV report 2024

  • The causes of the UK poverty crisis are known: Mismatch between cost of living and people’s income. Low wage economy, inadequate level of benefits, the housing crisis, and inflation in all other costs

    Anna Taylor, Food Foundation Feb 2025

  • Poverty is made up of three problems: Poverty of Resources, Poverty of Relationships, Poverty of Identity

    John Kurt CEO Hope Into Action Feb 2025

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