{"id":22179,"date":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22179"},"modified":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:04:15","slug":"councillor-criticised-over-homelessness-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/councillor-criticised-over-homelessness-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor criticised over homelessness tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conservative councillor Kathryn Kelloway said tents used by homeless people make the city unsafe.<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nCyncoed Cllr Kelloway tweeted a picture of herself in front of tents used by homeless people. In the tweet she called on Huw Thomas, leader of Cardiff Council, to tear the tents down.<br \/>\nIt was posted the night before Shelter Cymru, the homelessness charity, released a report saying homelessness in Wales is at a crisis point. She&#8217;s been widely criticised for these comments.<br \/>\nAdam Johannes, the founder of the campaign group Cardiff People&#8217;s Assembly, said &#8220;for somebody who represents Cyncoed, one of the wealthiest areas of Cardiff, to be demonising people in this way . . . is quite disgusting&#8221;.<br \/>\nCouncillor Kelloway has responded on Twitter and said her comments were made to raise awareness of the issue.<br \/>\nShe also said there was no need for people to be in tents because there are enough beds in Cardiff for the homeless population.<br \/>\nBut the Lib Dem Councillor for Pentwyn, Joe Carter, disagrees. He says the current accommodation system for rough sleepers &#8220;clearly doesn&#8217;t work for everyone&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Not everyone will feel comfortable in a shelter-type environment so we need to use more pods, more stand alone accommodation&#8221;. Cllr Carter also said Cllr Kelloway&#8217;s comments reflected badly on the city of Cardiff, &#8220;and made it seem like we have no compassion for the most vulnerable in our society&#8221;<br \/>\nShelter Cymru have said they don&#8217;t know the exact number of homeless people in Wales but every homeless organisation has reported a rise in figures. They&#8217;ve also said more needs to be done and they want to see additional housing made available.<br \/>\nWe have contacted Cllr Kelloway for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative councillor Kathryn Kelloway said tents used by homeless people make the city unsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[21,360,361,66,362],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slider-story","tag-cardiff","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Councillor criticised over homelessness tweet - 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