{"id":22179,"date":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22179"},"modified":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","slug":"councillor-criticised-over-homelessness-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/councillor-criticised-over-homelessness-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor criticised over homelessness tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conservative councillor Kathryn Kelloway said tents used by homeless people make the city unsafe.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cyncoed Cllr Kelloway tweeted a picture of herself in front of tents used by homeless people. In the tweet she called on Huw Thomas, leader of Cardiff Council, to tear the tents down.<\/p>\n<p>It was posted the night before Shelter Cymru, the homelessness charity, released a report saying homelessness in Wales is at a crisis point. She&#8217;s been widely criticised for these comments.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Johannes, the founder of the campaign group Cardiff People&#8217;s Assembly, said &#8220;for somebody who represents Cyncoed, one of the wealthiest areas of Cardiff, to be demonising people in this way . . . is quite disgusting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Kelloway has responded on Twitter and said her comments were made to raise awareness of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>She also said there was no need for people to be in tents because there are enough beds in Cardiff for the homeless population.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lib Dem Councillor for Pentwyn, Joe Carter, disagrees. He says the current accommodation system for rough sleepers &#8220;clearly doesn&#8217;t work for everyone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not everyone will feel comfortable in a shelter-type environment so we need to use more pods, more stand alone accommodation&#8221;. Cllr Carter also said Cllr Kelloway&#8217;s comments reflected badly on the city of Cardiff, &#8220;and made it seem like we have no compassion for the most vulnerable in our society&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shelter Cymru have said they don&#8217;t know the exact number of homeless people in Wales but every homeless organisation has reported a rise in figures. They&#8217;ve also said more needs to be done and they want to see additional housing made available.<\/p>\n<p>We have contacted Cllr Kelloway for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative councillor Kathryn Kelloway said tents used by homeless people make the city unsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744,750],"tags":[26,1098,779,728,1636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22207,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions\/22207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}