{"id":92750,"date":"2026-08-10T06:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92750"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:37:26","slug":"why-covent-garden-is-dubbed-the-zombie-zone-as-it-battles-a-homeless-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/why-covent-garden-is-dubbed-the-zombie-zone-as-it-battles-a-homeless-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Covent Garden is dubbed the &#8216;Zombie Zone&#8217; as it battles a homeless epidemic"},"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\"> < 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\/AA29HeaT.img?w=634&h=750&m=6\" alt=\"Shopkeepers, residents and business owners have told the Daily Mail that Covent Garden has become a 'zombie zone'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the pavement of a bustling street through which thousands of commuters and tourists stride lie three men.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/why-covent-garden-is-dubbed-the-zombie-zone-as-it-battles-a-homeless-epidemic\/ar-AA29HFYg?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=424fcff4f2fe4afbd5fc3c3c8cf5609f&ei=8\"> 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>On the pavement of a bustling street through which thousands of commuters and tourists stride lie three men.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Covent-Garden.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92750","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=92750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92752,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92750\/revisions\/92752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}