{"id":19928,"date":"2018-03-06T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19928"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:29:38","slug":"new-approach-to-street-sleeping-needed-say-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/new-approach-to-street-sleeping-needed-say-campaigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for new approach over street sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A group which supports homeless people is calling for change to encourage rough sleepers off the streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Homeless advocacy group Left Outside Alone\u00a0say some street sleepers are put off official shelters by things like aggressive behaviour and needles in the toilets.<\/p>\n<p>They also claim recovering alcoholics are worried they will start to drink again if they stay at a homeless centre.<\/p>\n<p>The group want Cardiff Council to speed up plans for helping rough sleepers, and to expand a pilot scheme to house people in converted shipping containers.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Lynda Thorne, Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities at Cardiff Council responded by saying:\u00a0&#8220;I accept sometimes they [homeless people going to shelters] can be afraid, but that fear is sometimes caused by a friction they&#8217;ve had with other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added that drugs were not allowed in any of the council&#8217;s shelters, but admitted she had heard stories of their use.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council is already considering a plan for old shipping containers to be converted into temporary homes for people with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n<p>Cadwyn Housing Association\u00a0want to construct fourteen container homes on Bute Street as part of a pilot project.<\/p>\n<p>But Chris Newth, who started Left Outside Alone&#8217;s campaign, wants this to happen sooner. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to see more done for the homeless,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring some shipping containers over,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re doing it in Wrexham, London, Bristol. Bring them here &#8211; there&#8217;s plenty of empty land.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group which supports homeless people is calling for change to encourage rough sleepers off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[1520,1519,26,1502,1098,779,1501,868,1482,1504,1505,1503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20026,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions\/20026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}