Opinion-in-brief: We need freedom to solve our housing woes By reducing demand for social housing, Brexit was supposed to help Boris Johnson deliver his pledge to end homelessness within five years. Spoiler: it’s not going well. From 2010 to 2018, the number of rough sleepers more than doubled from 1,768 to 4.677 because of the misguided idea that the homeless need help, instead of [...]