He brings that intensity to the verbal rough-housing that Intel's engineers have always loved.

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The official count in Westminster last September found 69 rough sleepers, but Housing Justice found 206 a fortnight earlier, and the Simon Community spotted 194 on one night five weeks later.

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These so-called "lifestyle squatters" are now thought to be far outnumbered by rough sleepers and other vulnerable groups in housing need.

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The U.S. economy is in rough shape, in part, because of a lackluster housing market.

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It hadn't been that long since his family had experienced rough financial times after losing their residential development business in the housing crisis.

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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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Robert Pawskwski from Poland found himself sleeping rough when he could not find work and was not entitled to housing or benefit support.

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Although the problem of people sleeping rough on the streets may be easing, the social pathologies of big public housing estates remain entrenched.

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Some of those funds would be better spent on collecting better data, yet the most useful fix would be for rough sleepers to go closer to the top of the queue for permanent public housing, as happens in London with good results.

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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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