Two days after Hannah disappeared, Lewis was found by police sleeping rough at a railway station.
The most visible sign of social exclusion is people sleeping rough on city streets.
The number of people sleeping rough in Taunton more than doubled in 2011, according to a government report.
Three said they were sleeping rough and the majority said they would opt for rehabilitation if it was available.
Mr Halpin, from Heaton in Newcastle, was making a documentary about sleeping rough on the streets when he died.
The penniless newlyweds spent their honeymoon sleeping rough across Europe, paying their way by collecting waste paper en route.
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Sixteen men sleeping rough under a bridge in west London have been arrested.
He was concerned about his deteriorating health and his ability to remain sleeping rough in a tent in winter weather.
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of a film-maker who died while sleeping rough for a documentary.
Robert Pawskwski from Poland found himself sleeping rough when he could not find work and was not entitled to housing or benefit support.
Although the problem of people sleeping rough on the streets may be easing, the social pathologies of big public housing estates remain entrenched.
That went and I ended up sleeping rough in York and I progressed into the criminal scene, and ended up in a real mess.
It is there that Rangel takes up the story, telling CNN about his gesture as he drove through the city looking for people sleeping rough.
Many homeless people are sleeping rough on the streets of Ipswich.
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But Donald MacRae said he had found the teenager to be "down" and that Liam had been sleeping rough in the derelict building where his body was later discovered.
Mr Robinson said the scheme was set up in response to a recent government report which identified East Yorkshire as an area with higher-than-average numbers of young people sleeping rough.
"It is quite annoying because there are a lot pf properties which are boarded up and yet there are people sleeping rough, " said Terry, who moved to Bridgend from his home city Birmingham.
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"Fifteen or 16 months ago there were as many as 50 people sleeping rough in the city every night but the city council has managed to reduce the number to 10 or 12, " Mr Robson said.
They should be prioritised on social housing waiting lists and government first-time buyer schemes, and there should be increased funding to adapt homes for wounded personnel and to stop so many ending up sleeping rough, said Grant Shapps.
According to Homeless Link, a national charity supporting individuals and organisations working directly with homeless people in England, more than 6, 000 people have been helped off the streets or away from sleeping rough by the grants made so far.
Full-year figures for 2009-10 are not due until July, but, in the three months from January to March 2010, seven more people were seen sleeping rough than in the same period a year earlier (though fewer than in the three previous quarters).
The Rough Sleeping England 2011 Report has also shown that the Taunton Deane area, which had 12 rough sleepers in 2010, now has the highest number of rough sleepers in the West Country, compared to four people in Bath and North East Somerset, and eight in Bristol.
In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, different methods are used to measure rough sleeping which politicians there feel are more reliable.
In 1999 the Labour government made it a priority to reduce rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, and renewed it in 2008.
The charity hopes that by picking people up early, it will help reduce rough sleeping and prevent future problems like drug and alcohol abuse.
Ministers admit the Rough Sleeper Count is a snapshot, but they will use it to measure whether they have reached their target of eradicating rough sleeping by 2012.
The charity runs a number of projects including four specialist schemes aiming to prevent and reduce rough sleeping and homelessness among young people between the ages of 16 and 25.
There were moments, as there were throughout the history of the church, when the seas were rough and the wind blew against us and it seemed the Lord was sleeping.
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