Rejected petition To open empty/disused shops/buildings for the homeless to sleep.

In every town in the country there are lots of empty or boarded up shops and buildings, there are also lots of homeless people who have nowhere to go.
Let's open these buildings to allow the homeless to sleep inside them rather than on the cold, wet unsafe streets.

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Having worked in my local town centre and now when i visit it and see so many shops standing empty and homeless people trying to keep warm and dry in the doorways of these buildings why not open them on an evening and allow the homeless to go inside and sleep?

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Date submitted 12 June 2019
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