With the downpours and absolutely freezing weather of late, the issue of homelessness is a little more top-of-mind for us than usual. With such terrible weather, any piece of roof is coveted real estate when you do not have a home to go to and the heavens open.
Of course, homelessness is not something that happens only here in South Africa and globally there are hundreds of initiatives to prevent people from finding themselves in this predicament. While most of these initiatives are advocating the humanity of the homeless, some of them are purely because businesses don’t want the image of a homeless person huddled in their doorway.
This second kind has caused outrage in England recently.
Metal spikes many believe have been installed to deter homeless people from sleeping in an alcove outside a block of flats in London have sparked outrage on Twitter, after pictures of the building went viral.
Andrew Horton, 33, of Woking, Surrey, took a picture of the studs outside of the block of privately-owned flats on Southwark Bridge Road in the borough of Southwark as he walked to work on Wednesday.
