>>>Another interesting development is homeless hostels. My son does volunteer work overnight at a hostel in London and many of the people using it are not "down an out" as you'd expect. They have menial low paid zero hours contract jobs and its the only place they can find and afford to live.
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>For most of those menial zero hours roles, I'd say they are doing things right there in London, meaning that their employers and customers do need them to live locally. In which case a homeless hostel for a working person, is very sad. Quoting from Timothy: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn... and the labourer is worthy of his reward." Seems to me that capitalism has swung far too far towards the 1% and Timothy's truism is forgotten. The truth is that the top 1% of the 1% could release half of their wealth back to workers and it would make zero, nada difference to the donors' lives, only to already ridiculously large numbers on a screen.

Yes . they get their washing (laundry) done and a meal and sleep in dormitory rooms. Its safe and clean but what a way to have to live. OTOH I live in an area where some of the 1% live and I see young men and women driving top of the range cars and sitting endlessly in cafes and I don't see a lot of brotherly love in their eyes..