I get it that homeless camps can be an issue but evicting homeless people without giving them somewhere to go is a pretty low blow.

This is so wrong. The council claims to have offered everyone somewhere to go, but often they want to place people hours away from everyone they know, or split families up with the father in one shelter 45 minutes by car away.

With few trains and a ridiculous non-linear bus route system that takes “efficient” wandering routes, this 45 minutes is easily an hour and a half or more.

We live near a major bus interchange and our daughters are going to uni in the city. It is 20 minutes by car, and 56 minutes by bus. It would take 3-4 hours of the day for this family to visit wherever they have been placed. While trying to get their life together?

Criminalising homelessness is yet another step on the road to becoming more like America. I should know - I grew up there and this whole situation makes my blood run cold, because it’s what I left 10 years ago.