Waltham Forest has joined an increasing number of London boroughs to back the London Charter to end Rough Sleeping

The London Charter started with a small group of organisations and city government officials – the Connection at St Martin’s, Groundswell, Housing Justice, The Passage, YMCA St. Paul’s, Bloomberg Associates, the Greater London Authority and London Councils — who wanted to engage better with the community and build a bigger movement around the goal to end rough sleeping. There are now eight London boroughs and over 600 individuals signed up to support the charter.

“We understand how much the experience of homelessness, or the threat of homelessness can be detrimental to our residents’ health, wellbeing and life chances. Homelessness is indiscriminate. It can happen to anyone. To tackle homelessness effectively, it must be seen as a symptom, not only of wider economic and social factors that affect our country, but of the many, highly individual, underlying causes.”

“Waltham Forest Council is committed to ending rough sleeping and is proud to be one of the first signatories to the London Rough Sleeping Charter.”

Leader of Waltham Forest Council, Cllr Grace Williams