Two years ago my mother started working in a homeless shelter. The shelter is in Folkestone, a town on the south coast of England.

两年前，我的母亲成为了英国南部海岸城市富克斯通的收容所里的一名工作人员。

Over the last few years England's economic situation has been very bad, as a result there are more and more homeless people.

近年来英国的经济每况愈下，导致收容所人数的不断增长。

Although the government provides social security, the money isn't benefiting many people.

尽管政府提供社会保险，但是这并没有太大帮助。

The root cause of this is alcoholism and drug addiction.

问题的根源是酗酒以及药物成瘾。

 Many people are sleeping on the streets as they have been evicted from their rented accommodation.

由于被房东赶了出来，很多人不得不露宿街头。

If homeless people don't have accommodation, they don't receive housing benefit, If they don't receive housing benefits they can't pay a deposit. If they can't pay a deposit they don't receive acccommodation.

流浪汉没有住所，他们就不能获得住房津贴；没有住房津贴，他们就不能租房子。

In order to find accommodation this vicious cycle needs to be broken.

为了解决流浪汉的住房问题，我们必须打破这个恶性循环！