www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...on-land-1962318.html

"...the first act of the Conservatives on assuming power - a crackdown on the homeless. They immediately sold off 12 homeless shelters, handing them to large property developers. The horrified charity Crisis was offered premises by the BBC to house the abandoned in a shelter over the Christmas period at least. The council refused permission.
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People should look at what they have done to us in Hammersmith. This is what Cameron and Osborne want to do to Britain. They say so. Remember, the people running this council said before they were elected that they were compassionate Conservatives. I can see the Conservatism. Where's the compassion?"

I have relatives who live in that borough and they tell a different story to the one written in the Independent. It's best not to believe everything you read in a newspaper.

There is a reasonable service for homeless people in Hammersmith and Fulham.
www.homelesslondon.org/details.asp?id=LP50

Also, Council Tax has been reduced over the past year.

One of the greatest mistakes made by both Conservative and Nu Labour governments has been the wind-back of public housing when every other country is increasing theirs.

Again it's yet another false economy.