{"id":83218,"date":"2026-01-06T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83218"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:53:43","slug":"homeless-shelters-under-pressure-as-temperatures-plunge-to-sub-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/06\/homeless-shelters-under-pressure-as-temperatures-plunge-to-sub-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless shelters under pressure as temperatures plunge to sub-zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Rcvjo.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Figures from 2024 to 2025 showed a 10 per cent increase in rough sleepers in London (Getty\/iStock)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Homeless\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/shelters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">shelters<\/a>\u00a0and organisations providing emergency accommodation across the UK are preparing for an influx of rough sleepers as temperatures drop to sub-zero, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/charities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">charities<\/a> warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/homeless-shelters-under-pressure-as-temperatures-plunge-to-sub-zero\/ar-AA1TCrDe?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=8a3332a480a3474e96519f1aa50a2b8c&amp;ei=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Homeless\u00a0shelters\u00a0and organisations providing emergency accommodation across the UK are preparing for an influx of rough sleepers as temperatures drop to sub-zero, with\u00a0charities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/homeless.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83219,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218\/revisions\/83219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}