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THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1987
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New Year, Old Problem: Homelessness in Exeter
Alex Wingrave Senior Reporter
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Photo: Tash Ebbutt them from the county amidst fears that homelessness in Devon would reach record highs. This is an action that would not necessarily be the most beneficial action for the homeless people themselves. However, it is not just Devon that is having these problems - rough sleeping nationally has greatly risen as well, with the numbers sleeping homeless rising from 2,181 in 2011 to 4,134 in 2016.
HE University of Exeter Students’ Guild has confirmed that the fifth elected position as NUS Delegate has gone to Malaka Shwaikh, who came fifth in the October elections, in lieu of a further election to fulfil this post. The Guild has said that this was because the total number of delegates had only been confirmed after polls had closed. The Students’ Guild has been granted seven delegates to the 2018 National Union of Students (NUS) Conference, which is an increase on the six places allocated to the Guild for the 2016-17 period. Whilst this information was published in the Delegate Entitlement statement on the NUS website on 6 October 2017, only six of the seven available places were allocated during the October elections which opened on the 16th of that month. One position was allocated to Guild President Shades, one allocated to FXU, and four positions were filled by elected candidates: Jack Morewood, Kat Karamani, Bryony Loveless and Peter Gillibrand. Morewood, who was elected as delegate in the October election, commented on the absence of a fifth elected position in October as a “gross display of ineptitude” and stated that it “raises questions about the competency of the Change team for managing elections”. He told Exeposé: “Had this error not been discovered, Exeter would have missed out on the experience, knowledge and contributions of an additional delegate.
Natalie Keffler News Editor
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N August 2017, an ITV report stated that the city of Exeter had the second highest number of rough sleepers outside of London, with 600 people facing homelessness in Exeter per year. It has become a huge problem that is being frequently commented on by those that live here, particularly due to how
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small a city Exeter is. It was recorded to have a population of 129,800 in October 2017, being rather small to have such a big proportion of homeless people, being just under 0.5 per cent of the population. It is increasingly noticeable at this time of year due to the temperatures dropping, and the town centre having become busier with Christmas shoppers, and now the January sales. The ITV report showed that there has been a huge rise in the
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number of people sleeping rough in Exeter, suggesting that the problem is not at all on its way to being solved, despite the council putting measures in place to change this. These efforts have included Exeter City Council spending almost £5,000 buying homeless people one-way tickets out of the city, in an attempt to reunite them with families they may have in different parts of the country. It has also been argued that this was merely an attempt to remove
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