Newly built North London tower block now home to 96 homeless families

submitted by

https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/newly-built-north-london-tower-34383285

16
347

Log in to comment

Hot Top New Old

I think they can just call them “families” now without the qualifier.

 reply
94

There’s a stipulation on the lease that though the homes are rented to these families, they’re not permitted to actually live inside of them or muck them up with their homeless people tents and sleeping rolls. That way they don’t stop being homeless and make the whole ordeal sound less altruistic.

 reply
6

People love labels.

 reply
15

“People are living in apartments” isn’t quite the same headline

 reply
30

“Formerly-homeless” would have been a very easy change to the headline that an editor would have suggested immediately, if they had one.

 reply
26

I suspect headlines are generally written by the editor, not the person that writes the article.

First sentence of the article: “A recently completed affordable housing development in North London is now home to 96 households that were previously identified as homeless, according to the council.” The article itself doesn’t say the people are homeless, only the headline says that.

The headlines are written to be click-bait so they’ll get shared. Because of this, many times a headline isn’t accurate to the article. In this case it’s just a little bit careless, but sometimes headlines make a fairly innocuous story become very contentious for those that only read headlines.

 reply
2

“Newly built North London tower block now home to 96 families” just doesn’t quite have the same… je ne sais quoi.

 reply
7

but then how would the slightly better off know to judge and look down on them? we have to have people looking down so they never look up

 reply
7
edited

Deleted by author

 reply
0

Most food is actually eaten by formerly foodless families

 reply
3

I’ve seen this one before in Boston. It never ends well…

 reply
-1

Deleted by moderator

 reply
-12

..do you smell burnt toast?

 reply
12

Deleted by moderator

 reply
-5

Ok.. Pass some of whatever you’re smoking?

 reply
7

Deleted by moderator

 reply
-5
Insert image