Acknowledgement to 'Grammarly' on Facebook.
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Addition: I've just noticed this article in the Guardian, from which I pick the following paragraphs as the most important for people to read...
The year has started, incredibly, with two pieces of good news to counteract an otherwise unending stream of grim revelations about Britain's housing crisis. First, the Scottish government has brought into force a law that will effectively end homelessness there, by requiring local authorities to house all involuntarily homeless people in settled accommodation. The second is that Newham council in east London is regulating the free-for-all in private rented housing by requiring landlords to have background checks before being licensed.
Note that neither of these initiatives has come from the coalition, and therefore won't be applicable throughout Britain.
The phrase used by the Scottish government is "settled accommodation" – not bed and breakfast, but a home to call your own.
Yes, I know it will be expensive for the councils, but how much less so than having people sleeping on the streets, with absolutely no chance of getting a job, with every likelihood of having to resort to any means at hand to get money to stay warm and get food?
How much more pleasant will streets be for tourists and residents alike, if they are not tripping over beggars ever few meters?
How much more civilised than their government, is our government?
Oh, and how will Scottish Labour manage to say that this is a bad thing?
