
Britain's Mean Streets
A third of London's homeless now come from eastern Europe, and this report goes onto the capital's streets to see what that shift has done to the city's rough sleeping population. Cameras follow outreach workers, police, and the migrants themselves, from shop doorways to makeshift camps, tracking the friction between longtime residents and newcomers competing for the same shelters, soup runs, and pavement space. The film reports on the social tension this has created, including complaints from British charities stretched thin and accounts from eastern European arrivals who came for work that did not materialize. It treats the numbers as a starting point rather than a headline, using interviews with those actually sleeping outside to show how someone ends up homeless in a foreign country with no safety net. The result is a plain, on-the-ground account of a policy problem playing out one person at a time on London's streets.