It’s formidable, actually. Not least as a result of, as our Metropolis Corridor editor Ross Lydall reviews, the variety of individuals dwelling on the streets has soared 71 per cent since Khan turned mayor. The most recent figures present 4,389 individuals had been discovered sleeping tough between October and January, in contrast with 2,561 simply previous to the 2016 mayoral election. And these numbers don’t embrace 1000’s of Londoners thought of the ‘hidden homeless’, both couch browsing or dwelling in squats.
