What Apollo House solves – and what it doesn’t
The conversion of an office block into a shelter has created a useful focus, but the homelessness crisis is so much more
There is a tension running through all of the commentary (including mine) on Apollo House and street-sleeping.
Apollo House may act as a catalyst for a greater public engagement with the under-lying issues - but it may also be a soporific, allowing a release of anger and activist energy at Christmas, followed by a relapse into our customary indifference soon after.
And by dominating the recent media coverage of homelessness, Apollo House may ...
