I used to sit in on housing meetings for drug users in a previous job, where all the local housing associations would get together with local charities and the charities would put forward their clients and their list of needs/issues and the housing associations would say which ones they thought they could accommodate. So often they wouldn’t take the homeless clients because they’d previously been banned from every association, for smashing up properties and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, the properties would become drug dens or cannabis farms, they’d even have to replace the floorboards because they’d be covered in human waste.
It’s naive at best to say anyone could end up homeless, you may end up without a home but most of us would be entitled to temporary accommodation and benefits, generally people on the street have mental health issues and drug or alcohol dependency which mean they can’t cope with the responsibility of looking after housing or claiming benefits, I’ve known drug users commit crime solely for the purpose of being sent to prison because it was easier than taking responsibility for themselves, at least in prison they have clean clothes, a bed and 3 meals a day.
I’m surprised the charity worker even turned up st the premier inn with the 19 homeless people as they must have known they wouldn’t be allowed to stay, they should have called ahead to check.
I can definitely see why the premier inn didn’t allow them to stay, at a minimum they would have had to give the rooms a very thorough clean afterwards but more than likely they would’ve had to replace the mattresses, bed linen and duvets, possibly even the carpets if they got cigarette burns in and ensure their staff didn’t touch any drug paraphernalia.