History of homelessness
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Early history
For as long as historical records have been kept, Britain has had a homelessness problem. As far back as the 7th century, the English king Hlothaere passed laws to punish vagrants.
William the Conqueror forbade anyone to leave the land where they worked. Edward the First ordered weekly searches to round up vagrants.
The numbers of vagrants has risen and fallen, and precise figures are hard to come by, but we know that 16th-century estimates put the number of vagrants at 20,00...
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