Claim: Councils are making it a criminal offence to be poor.
Fact-check: Is it a crime to be poor? - Full Fact
Verdict: it's considerably more complicated than that. councils and police are often responding to perceived anti-social behaviour from rough sleepers rather than poverty or homelessness in itself, but to address it they do use powers that can, directly or indirectly, lead to a criminal penalty.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2017-04-06T00:00:00