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Rise in rough sleeping in London 'shameful'

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79% Informative

4,780 rough sleepers were seen on London 's streets between July and September .

This is an increase of 18% from 4,068 people in the same quarter last year .

49% - 2,343 - of those counted were new homeless people.

Homeless Link chief executive: "This shameful upward trend cannot be allowed to continue" London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced Â4.8m investment in supporting people previously sleeping rough.

VR Score

78

Informative language

77

Neutral language

26

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

58

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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