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The present article written in the Observer on 16th May deals with the Conservative «housing first» proposal for homeless people, now living in hotels.
During coronavirus many homeless people were given protection by offering them a place in hotels.
According to Bob Blackman rough sleepers should receive a permanent place, as it happens in Finland and Denmark. Likewise, the Labour co-chair Neil Coyle was proud of the result obtained in a week with homeless settling, nevertheless she showed her fear of a short-lasting success. Another widespread concern is the possible increase of rough sleepers after the end of the lockdown.
As for Boris Johnson, he didn't pledge himself about the future plans to face the pandemic.
The owner of the Prince Rupert Hotel in Shrewsbury stated that at the beginning it was not simple to accept homeless people, but now they are a sort of big family. The extended hospitality resulted in an improvement of physical and mental health of the guests. However, the hotelier wonders what it can happen with these people once they will go back to the street.
The authour describes the case of Jinx who lived by selling newspaper and he never begged. Jinx was initially hesitant to leave his indipendence for staying in a hotel, but he admitted that it was the best way to face the pandemic, despite he does not know what it will be with him after the lockdown.
In conclusion, the author reassures that the majority of rough sleepers has received offers for a safe accomodation and a fund was appropriated to guarantee a place once the pandemic will be over.
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Very well written! I am not an English teacher but a native english speaker (from America) I have left my thoughts on your summary below:
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The present article written in the Observer on 16th May deals with the Conservative «housing first» proposal for homeless people that are now living in hotels.
During coronavirus many homeless people were given protection by offering them a place in hotels.
According to Bob Blackman rough sleepers should receive a permanent place as it happens they do in Finland and Denmark. Likewise, the Labour co-chair Neil Coyle was proud of the result obtained in a week with homeless settling, nevertheless she showed her fear of a short-lasting success. Another widespread concern is the possible increase of rough sleepers after the end of the lockdown.
As for Boris Johnson, he didn't pledge himself about the future plans to face the pandemic.
The owner of the Prince Rupert Hotel in Shrewsbury stated that at the beginning it was not simple to accept homeless people, but now they are a sort of a big family. The extended hospitality resulted in an improvement of physical and mental health of the guests. However, the hotelier wonders what it can will happen with to these people once they will go back to the street.
The authour describes the case of Jinx who lived by selling newspaper and he never begged. Jinx was initially hesitant to leave his indipendence independence for staying to stay in a hotel, but he admitted that it was the best way to face the pandemic despite that he does not know what it will be with will happen to him after the lockdown.
In conclusion, the author reassures that the majority of rough sleepers has have received offers for a safe accomodation accommodation and a fund was appropriated to guarantee a place once the pandemic will be is over.
Other thoughts:
now I think "currently" would be a great word to use here.
During coronavirus "During the coronavirus epidemic" or "During the coronavirus outbreak"
simple "easy" would be a more common word here I believe.
The authour describes the case of Jinx who lived by selling newspaper and he never begged
The authour describes the case of Jinx who never begged, but made his living selling newspapers.
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