WWYD? Homeless outside house (diagram)

Very difficult situation, I hope they can be incentivised to move on OP.

I would absolutely call the police. It’s worth a try!

Maybe you could try writing to your MP? Don't sugarcoat anything...tell them you have very young children and you're terrified to leave your house

Are the bins in a store?
Have spiky bushes all around it so they can't get comfortable.

Get them moved on however you can Police, MP, locals getting together. Needles - what if a kid gets a disease!
Is your area nice or a bit neglected?
What kind of community is there?

Surely that's what the Community Protection Officers are for, in the cases where no crime is actually being committed (other than perhaps technically flytipping).

Don't try and help them beyond calling streetlink. People in active addiction are erratic and if you don't know how to manage the situation could put yourself at risk. I agree they are people, and being human goes a long way but in this situation calling on agencies designed to help us a lot more than others would do.

Going outside wear your heaviest boots. No sandals flip flops. Wear thickest marigolds gloves you have. I’d be intimidated too.educate kids not to touch syringes or needles. If you absolutely must pick one up use litter picker, into a plastic bottle you can screw a lid on.

I would contact a local drug rehabilitation or homeless charity, I think they would be more helpful than the police. Although talking to them to see how you can help is a nice idea, in reality it's probably more specialist help that they need and you don't have to get personally involved. See what you can find online about nearby support groups.

Do not be guilted into approaching them, talking to them or having any sympathy for them by people on here. Addicts can't be trusted - at all. And yes of course the police should arrest them - they're carrying out an illegal activity in the street and on private property. I can't believe anyone actually thinks it's ok that the police would let them lie around by the bins like that?!

I'd report and repot and report, OP. Make yourself the absolute squeakiest wheel you can be. Make it so that its more hassle to deal with your constant calls than with the druggies.

You need a gate on the bin shed.

This exact thing happened to us. The week we moved in a homeless man overdosed and died in the bin shed, then we had people living in there and shooting up.

All it took was a gate to be installed to stop this behaviour. Gate can be opened using a firefighters key which bin men will have so no problem there.

Yes we should empathise with people living with addiction - but you also have a right to use basic amenities without coming into contact with used needles or someone off their face.

A few people have said to approach them, see if they need something, do not do that, just report them. When I lived in London we had the same issue, a drug addict/homeless man was squatting very close to our house and I would see him in the mornings when walking to work. Someone gave me the same advice and one day he tried to get me to come and talk to him and kept moving along the back of the house. I told him no and tried to keep walking, making sure I stayed in public view and finally he gave up. He was so creepy I wanted to report him and spoke to a few people but was told nothing can be done. Then a few days later another girl actually followed him, he raped her at knifepoint and killed her. It was all over the news. I know it's not a super likely scenario, but it's not worth it. Keep your distance, these people are dangerous.

I can totally understand you being concerned.

Definitely contact Streetlink. They won't know it's you that has contacted them and also contact your local Councillor as previously suggested about the needles.

I don't think being extra vigilant will hurt either, so don't leave windows open, that kind of thing

If they not actively committing a crime, what do you expect the police to do? They're not social workers and 'moving them along' so you don't have to look at them is a massive waste of their time.

There was a couple living in the communal bin house where I used to live. There were no needles or anything like that though, they were very polite and left first thing in the morning. I felt so sorry for them that I just let them be. There were several homeless shelters in the area but it’s really hard for couples like that because they have to go to separate male/ female shelters and they want to stay together. I would have reported it to the management company if the circumstances were different. It was a private apartment complex. Who owns/ maintains the bin house? That’s who you need to contact.
I know my sister had the exact same problem where she lived and unfortunately it is really hard to stop people from doing this.

Check online who your local councillor is, might be more than one. Just Google find my local councillor X town.

What do you want the police to do? Arrest them?

OP - I used to work on a detox programme for drug addicts for years, I was made redundant under David Cameron’s gov! There are now very few programmes around the country that deal with addicts! The Tory’s cut them all! As a result they are now all on the street.
Is the paraphernalia they’re leaving on the floor needles? If so please report this to the council/ local councillor, get any neighbours you know to do the same. Keep repeating that it’s a health and safety issue.
In my experience I have never been attacked by an addict, this is not me trying to convince you to engage with them, just trying to settle your nerves.
I would say however your concern over burglary could be correct, just don’t leave any opportunities. It will mostly be items they can sell quickly on the street or at a pawn shop. Gold, small electrical items etc.
I am sorry I have no advice about moving them on, the police will not care. Your only hope is that they take the offer of help from a service near you.

YANBU. Report them on the links given here. They need help and the needles left around are sever risk for children passing.

They wont be interested....a friend who is 74 had a naked man in front garden passed out with syringe in leg and crack pipe in hand...police told her it was not an emergency !!

If they're literally shooting up in the street call police.

It isn't the OP's job to chat to them and find out what they need. They either don't know or are incapable of sustaining any of that right now, the poor people are living by some bins surrounded by drug paraphernalia. OP I'd call the council to report the drug paraphernalia littered on the floor, 101 to log drug use and street link or any local homeless charities. Their situation is sad but you should be able to let the kids out to play and comfortably but your rubbish out

I have not led a very sheltered life, but I have never seen homeless people in as bad a state as
the last year or so.

Junkies living on the street. Often living in piles of rubbish, the ground black underneath them. Often semi-dressed, no shoes, unconscious.

I report stuff ALL THE TIME and no one seems to care. Got a message from the police ‘call an ambulance if you’re worried’ on reporting a man living in a pile of rotting food in a touristy central London location.

Police don’t care, hospitals aren’t set up
to manage them, homeless charities don’t seem to deal with addicts.

The total lack of empathy from the police I have managed to engage has been bleak. As long as they aren’t dead, they aren’t going to do anything.