LETTERS – Well done for helping homeless

It is said that a community is to be judged by how well it protects not the comfortable and secure, but casualties and victims.

The first group can really look after themselves; the second need all the help they can get. So well done, South Holland District Council, for committing extra funds to provide for more people who are homeless.

It must be frightening and humiliating to fall off the edge and find yourself without even a roof over your head.

Homelessness is usually just an element in a mesh of complex problems that some people have to face; the council cannot do everything to rebuild lives, but this is a significant move in the right direction.

Congratulations to everyone who supported it, and particularly Councillor Rodney Grocock for facing down resistance to bring it about.

Roger Seal
Holbeach

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