Open up empty buildings for homeless people this winter

Manchester has agreed to open up their empty buildings to provide rough sleepers with a home this winter. Other councils are now following suite.

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  • London
    Open up empty buildings in Ealing
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    31 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Angela Nisco
  • Plymouth
    Open up empty buildings in Plymouth
    To plead to Plymouth City Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    1,588 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Lyn Boundy
  • Huddersfield
    Open up empty buildings in Kirklees
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings. THE WHOLE SITUATION IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE !
    84 of 100 Signatures
    Created by David Michael Dyson
  • Milton Keynes
    Open Sainsburys
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    8,941 of 9,000 Signatures
    Created by Ryan Moore
  • Ramsgate
    Ramsgate
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    295 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Clara Gibson
  • Birmingham
    Open up empty buildings in Birmingham
    Birmingham has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country, three times the national average. Despite this, we have the space that could house every homeless person in Birmingham but bureaucracy stops the council doing just this!! It's inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings. Birmingham City Council - please open your empty buildings to the homeless in winter. Just a few years ago, there were fewer than 10 rough sleepers in Birmingham on an average per night. If someone lives and works in the city, there's a good chance that they will see that many just on the way home now. Birmingham City Council, you seriously have to address the root causes of homelessness however in the meantime, let's give rough sleepers some shelter at least over the frigid winter months.
    5,630 of 6,000 Signatures
    Created by James Lovatt
  • Ruthin
    Open up empty buildings in Denbighshire
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    139 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Lauren Arnold
  • London
    Open up empty buildings in Leytonstone
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings. According to the charity Crisis 7,581 people slept rough at some point in London during 2014/15, a 16 per cent rise on the previous year, and more than double the figure of 3,673 in 2009/10. http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/Homelessness%20briefing%202015%20EXTERNAL.pdf Data available at http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/empty-homes shows that, as of 2012, the council owned at least 167 properties out of a total of 2885 empty properties in Waltham Forest. I urge you to follow Manchester's lead and make sure homeless people don't sleep on the streets this winter. Thank you!
    41 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Ciprian Diaconita
  • Halifax
    Open up empty buildings in Calderdale
    To plead to the Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    35 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Erran Taylor
  • Doncaster
    say no to sleeping rough this winter
    To plead to Doncaster City Council to open its empty buildings to the homeless in winter. I cannot imagine sleeping rough in driving, biting winds, snow, ice and winter rain. It's inhumane. It's also inexcusable when we have so many empty buildings.
    988 of 1,000 Signatures
    Created by cathyerine ward