When the home secretary calls living in tents “a lifestyle choice” something has gone seriously wrong in her understanding of rough sleeping. Five years ago, Milton Keynes, where I am a councillor, was labelled a “tent city”. Today, no one needs to sleep rough on our streets. Suella Braverman could learn a lot from how we did that, and how it could be replicated elsewhere.
For a start, we didn’t make giving people tents a civil offence. Tents are a symptom, not the cause.
