Rejected petition Abolish The Vagrancy Act 1824 to stop sleeping rough on the streets illegal.

There are people getting arrested just for being so poor that they do not have a home to live in.

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Last year alone there were 5074 people arrested for sleeping rough on the streets

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Date submitted 25 June 2019
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