Housing crisis impacts young people's 'sense of belonging', violence reduction chief warns

Lib Peck, director of London's Violence Reduction Unit - (Greater London Authority)

London’s homelessness crisis is helping to fuel violence among young people, the director of Sir Sadiq Khan’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has warned.

Lib Peck, the former Lambeth Council leader who has headed up the mayor’s VRU since 2019, said the lack of “belonging and identity” that comes with being homeless is causing young Londoners to disengage from school and “drop out of the system”.