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Safwat Cars
Safwat Cars have been trading since 2005 and have established themselves as one of the leading Prestige, Sports and 4x4 used car dealers in Essex.
They specialise in Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes, Land Rover and Porsche and have a reputation for supplying superbly prepared vehicles and exceptional customer service. 5 star reviews Their hundreds of 5 star reviews are testament to this. This has been achieved by only selling high quality, carefully selected vehicles that are typically up to 5 years old and have covered less than 60k miles, that said the owner, Sharif Safwat has said the age is far less important than the quality of the car and its history, so if you do see an older car for sale you can be assured it will be of excellent pedigree.
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Why has this been allowed to happen? January this year, I wrote an article ‘Why has this been allowed to happen?' Raising awareness of the plight of Southend’s High Street and surrounding areas. (If you missed the article visit Oracle’s ‘Latest magazine page' on its website). That article sparked a huge amount of attention, and I am pleased to say that Essex Police have since happen?' Raising awareness of the plight of Southend’s High Street and surrounding areas. (If you missed the article visit Oracle’s ‘Latest magazine page' on its website). That article sparked a huge amount of attention, and I am pleased to say that Essex Police have since increased their visibility on the High Street, which is great news. increased their visibility on the High Street, which is great news. Understanding by Emma Wynne-Morgan homelessness
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I mentioned in my article that an increase in crime is not the only factor contributing to Southend's problems. The unfortunate increase in homelessness as a result of other socioeconomic factors is also burdening Southend City today. This increase has stretched local services and resulted in incidents and general hostility.
I’m a huge supporter of HARP; Oracle has donated over £6,000 in the past. It appears that Southend is disproportionately impacted by homelessness, I wanted to understand why this is, so I contacted the Housing Department at Southend Borough Council. I imagine that many of you would also like to understand why this is the case, I still fi nd it quite unbelievable that homelessness is still happening today, considering how destructive it is to the individual concerned. The following information was supplied to me by SBC which I wanted to share: -
Challenges of homelessness
Homelessness is a very broad topic and often erroneously depicted as merely the narrow issue of rough sleeping and associated challenges. In truth, this is a very small percentage of those people who are experiencing or facing the challenges of homelessness, but unfortunately this is the image that tends to stick, and which often shapes peoples’ views. Furthermore, the confl ation of things like begging, street drinking and homelessness sometimes further undermine the truth; in fact, we know that not all people involved in things such as begging are homeless, nor are all visitors to soup kitchens, and so on. The truths of people’s circumstances are much more nuanced than the generalised tale often promoted in mainstream media. A good example of research into this, is the report Ipsos Mori conducted with the
Centre for Homelessness Impact: Perceptions of homelessness
www.ipsos.com/en-uk/ perceptions-homelessness
Why Southend?
In terms of why people who are homeless may come to Southend, there are many likely reasons. Firstly, people have always and will always move around and are not bound to the place they are usually resident. Seaside towns, such as Southend, Brighton, Bournemouth, and many others, along with big university towns and the major cities, have a history of ‘itinerant’ populations and of supporting people with health and housing problems. This goes back to the roots of social support, political activity, faith-based communities, and seasonal labour, amongst other things. So, people often gravitate to places where they know there will be support and opportunity available, and Southend has a plethora of this on offer through organisations such as HARP, and the many other faith and community providers operating across the city. However, just because people come to Southend does not mean they would qualify for housing here, and there are conditions to be met within our local allocations policy and, as with everywhere else, a paucity of available social and affordable housing. Southend is more affordable
If we delve further into the issue of affordability however, this is an interesting concept and one which will reveal some clues as to why some local authorities might place people in temporary accommodation in Southend. There is something called the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) which is set by central government, and which determines the amount of housing benefit payable on property types within a local authority area. continues on page 37
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