Is a single homeless lady pensioner vulnerable or not?

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Should she get accommodation, or handed a voucher to get a tent and chucked back on the street?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/03/homeless-woman-offered-vouchers-for-tent-isle-of-wight_n_3377939.html

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  1. Back to the drawing board
    Interesting question, how can this sort of thing go on in Britain, beacon of enlightenment and western democracy, we still pay lip service to Clement Atlee's vision of the welfare state in that people who cannot work through age, disability, or there simply being not enough jobs, should get a decent standard of living. Unfortunately on another level we seem to have changed this now to the idea that unemployment is a person's own fault and they should be punished for it. The current Turkish demonstrations are interesting, whilst we in the west may want to maintain the moral high ground, and 'they have nasty authoritarian governments etc', I'm wondering if there are homeless people sleeping on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara like we have in the UK, my guess is probably not, any answers could be relative about what we regard as a civilised society or not.
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