GB Newsviewers were split after presenter Patrick Christys questioned why people in the UK appeared to prioritise resettling Afghanrefugees but choosing to ignore the thousands of homeless veterans on the streets.... " Another viewer said there were complications with veterans who may be suffering from mental health problems. They said:" Some of the homeless veterans have complex issues hence they are homeless." Just giving them accommodation won't necessarily help.... What they need is wrap-a

Fewer than one in four homeless people cared for under a new government scheme have been given a permanent place to stay, new figures show.... However, housing charity Shelter has warned that many people cared for by the project are still in short-term accommodation or even back on the streets.... Data from Freedom of Information requests to every council in England showed that more than three quarters of those initially accommodated were still in emergency or temporary accommodation or were l

In a pilot project that started last June, some 66 long term rough sleepers have been rehoused

A MUM has hit out after her pleas for rehousing have been ignored despite her home being covered in

RABAT, Sept 20( Reuters)-Morocco plans to spend at least 120 billion dirhams($ 11.7 billion) in a post-earthquake reconstruction plan over the next five years, the royal palace said on Wednesday.A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Sept 8, killing more than 2, 900 people, mostly in the hard-to-reach villages of the High Atlas mountains. The plan would target 4.2 million people in the worst-hit provinces of Al Haouz, Chichaoua, Taroudant, Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Azizlal, the royal palace said,

" My girls have changed my life in a positive way and I’m not removing them.... All my family members — my mom, my dad, my brother, my husband — are all deceased.... The girls are all I have. Click for more on Fox 4....

BEJAIA, Algeria( Reuters)-When Algeria's deadly wildfires tore through the forest around their village, brothers Khelaf and Lyazid Tazibt could only hustle their families out of the door and abandon the home they shared to the flames.... The two men, both retired, and their wives and children, are now among hundreds of Algerians left homeless by the country's worst fires in memory, which have burned swathes of the northeast over the past week, killing dozens of people.... We all gave up," said

A MUM has been left homeless when her flat flooded and then caught fire after she was made redundant as she went into labour with twins.... They have been through so much this year." We are all so grateful for all your support at this unbearable time.... All your messages have meant so much and have filled our hearts!...

A MAN is the only tenant in a high-rise block of 50 flats-and says he won't move despite the council offering him six other places to live. Dad-of-four Ezekiel Hermon is the only remaining tenant in the doomed Birmingham block, which is due to be demolished.... I've been here for 25 years so I'm always used to people walking around, but it's weird when no one's here because of any little noise, you know that you're the only one that's here, so who else has come in?... Most read in News PAEDO’S

The Home Office housed Afghan refugee families in a hotel from which a boy fell to his death despite it still being subject to a fire service enforcement notice for safety failings. Five-year-old Mohammed Munib Majeedi fell from a ninth-floor window at the Oyo Metropolitan hotel in Sheffield, where he was quarantining with his family last week after arriving from Afghanistan.It is believed 16 Afghan families and 85 children had been placed in the hotel under the Arap refugee scheme for governmen