ROOF Blog

Nearly one in ten over-70s are still paying to support their children, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are bearing the financial burden of a family despite having had to retire in their sixties. The findings reflect the rising ‘boomerang generation’ of twentysomethings returning to the family home to rely on their parents after leaving university, as well as the increasing age at which many couples are having children. On top of this, a quarter of grandparents are paying towards the upbringing of their children’s children, other figures have shown.

Liberty and Housing Justice are among the charities that have become so alarmed about the ways in which the human rights of rough sleepers are increasingly being threatened by the authorities that they have produced ‘The Rights Guide for Rough Sleepers’.

In the run-up to the London Olympics in 2012, which is also Mayor Boris Johnson’s deadline for ending rough sleeping in London, the number and the severity of enforcement measures against rough sleepers has been growing.

The guide will clearly set out the rights of homeless people so that they know what their legal position is.