When he left he said he could not hold down a job and was forced to sleep rough.

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Frazer Robson, of Shelter Housing Aid and Research Project (SHARP), said the proposed cuts could force more people to sleep rough on the streets.

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About 150 people sleep rough in Westminster on any given night and 98% of those people "have no connection to the borough", the council said.

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Yet in his next breath he mentions a number of local families who have been forced to sleep rough since mortgage lenders foreclosed on their flats.

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He said that boys were not seen as a priority for housing and that many were often forced to sleep rough because they had no where to go.

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He had to dodge German pursuers, sleep in caves, rely on the hospitality (and courage) of Italian villagers, go hungry for days, sleep rough and trust his home-made compass to get him back to safety.

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