Here are some photos of Prince William today at Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, London. This was the first stop in his “homelessness project” tour, which I guess means that he’ll be staging events across the UK to launch this program. The name of the program is called Homewards, and if I’m reading this correctly, William is solely financing the project… through the Royal Foundation. William has been previewing the project and I honestly thought it was going to be something much bigger and more comprehensive, given William’s desire to have some big, signature initiative (to compete with his brother). But this just sounds like William is financing six half-way houses across the UK? That’s nothing to sniff at, but it’s nowhere near the kind of program which will eradicate homelessness as we know it.
Prince William today launches an ambitious £3million programme to ‘end’ homelessness within five years. The future king is personally funding, through his Royal Foundation’s charitable arm, six projects in flagship locations across the UK. They will bring together local stakeholders, experts and even house builders to eradicate rough sleeping, ‘sofa surfing’ and temporary hostels and bring about substantive change.
As a member of the Royal Family, William acknowledges his critics may question why someone from such a privileged background believes they can solve such a widespread issue. Figures suggest more than 300,000 people – nearly half of whom are children – are homeless, whether living on the streets, in cars, or hostels and other types of temporary accommodation.
He has been involved with several organisations working in the field ever since, including Centrepoint and The Big Issue. Now the 41-year-old heir to the throne believes he can use his unique convening power as a member of the Royal Family to bring together coalitions of individuals, organisations and businesses to work together based on specific local needs.
The programme, run by his Royal Foundation, will be known as ‘Homewards’. Launching the initiative today, with hopes of turning conventional thinking about the problem on its head, the prince will say: ‘In a modern and progressive society, everyone should have a safe and secure home, be treated with dignity and given the support they need. Through Homewards, I want to make this a reality and over the next five years, give people across the UK hope that homelessness can be prevented when we collaborate. It’s a big task, but I firmly believe that by working together it is possible to make homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated.’
William will unveil the six locations over the next two days on a tour of the UK. Sources say he feels inspired by his mother who would be celebrating her 62nd birthday this week. ‘She is very much in his thoughts as he embarks on this,’ said one source. ‘This isn’t just his legacy, it’s his mother’s legacy. This means so much to him and meant so much to his mother. He is committed to transforming the way we as a nation think about homelessness. The prince really is the heart and soul of [the programme].’
Imagine having millions of pounds in resources, an overstaffed office at Kensington Palace, a whole-ass Duchy of Cornwall (a billion-dollar real estate empire) and then sending out your staff with talking points like “The prince really is the heart and soul of [the programme].” No one said “but sir, why are you centering yourself in this program?” No one said to him “do we need to do wall-to-wall keenery in which we attempt to wrest control of Diana’s legacy in this way?” Is this solely an exercise in William’s narcissism?
Besides all of that, I will be curious to see the breakdown of how this “£3 million” is allocated. When I saw the breakdown in how the money is allocated for Earthshot, I was shocked – Earthshot claims to hand out five £1 million grants every year, but the grants are structured in a way that the prize winners don’t actually get all of the prize money at once, it’s parceled out over the course of three years. Not to mention the fact that Earthshot blows through £7 million on vague Earthshot keenery per year (compared to the “£5 million” in grants) by throwing the big Earthshot ceremonies in different cities and NOT INVITING THE PRIZE WINNERS. I’m just saying, if Homewards is organized in any way like Earthshot, nothing about that “£3 million” figure is as it seems.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Prince of Wales during a visit to Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, London, which supports people living with mental health conditions across Lambeth, as part of his tour of the UK to launch a project aimed at ending homelessness. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 26 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales speaks with members during a visit to Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, London, which supports people living with mental health conditions across Lambeth, as part of his tour of the UK to launch a project aimed at ending homelessness. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 26 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales speaks during a visit to Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, London, which supports people living with mental health conditions across Lambeth, as part of his tour of the UK to launch a project aimed at ending homelessness. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 26 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales speaks during a visit to Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, London, which supports people living with mental health conditions across Lambeth, as part of his tour of the UK to launch a project aimed at ending homelessness. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 26 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales during a visit to Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth, south London, which supports people living with mental health conditions across Lambeth, as part of his tour of the UK to launch a project aimed at ending homelessness. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 26 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Hang on there. He is “personally funding [this], through his Royal Foundation’s charitable arm” (the article says)??
That is NOT personally funding. They make it sound like the money comes out of PW’s own pocket. It does not.
Here’s another example of Prince William’s Diana-inherited “ability to relate to others”:
https://www.celebitchy.com/804524/prince_william_was_exceptionally_rude_to_the_woman_who_baked_him_cupcakes/
This is exactly what I was going to say. The article makes it sound as if the Wales are contributing their own money, but then contradict it by saying it will come out of the Royal Foundation.
Also, 3 million GBPs is not going to do much of anything for homelessness. If there are 271,000 homeless in the UK (from a recent article), this works out to about 11 GBPs per homeless person–half a cheap blanket and a McDonalds Big Mac and maybe a cup of coffee each???
Unless . . . William really treats Royal Foundation money as his own personal wealth? So in his mind, that is HIS money?
What is 3 million pounds going to do, especially after admin costs are removed from it. Is W taking away some of Khates and her grifter Mummy’s spending allowances. Khate spends around 200 thousand pounds per year on clothes alone, how will she cope ! Cannot imagine her going without another new thousand pound plus dress so that some poor person could eat….. No humanity whatsoever evident in W or K. Empty useless words are their standards.
He is lost. I pity him.
Adrift in the hubris of his own mind.
@thatsnotok, you are so right. I felt sick to my stomach and so bloody angry when I read this bullsht. He is NOT personally funding it, it’s the money from the foundation, ie his wealthy donors and toads looking for a title! Yes BULLYAM, EVERYONE should have a safe and secure home, so WTF did you and your dog shit father do to your brother and his SAFE AND SECURE HOME? You took his away in the hope that you Could have a 5th one. Your a low down snake and a hypocrite. People can see underneath your Royal robes and titles, and what we can see matey is not good at all
The only thing we hear from you and your steptford wife is something is you life’s work, or its a five year pla or your listening. If that’s the case for over 40 years you have been stone deaf. Get over yourself man and take her with you. We know who really cares about people and it isn’t you
Word, ThatsNotOkay.
Yes, poor William. He is really desperate. I am sure listening to the long list of his father’s achievements in the run up to the Coronation he came to the realisation that he has not really achieved anything and time is running out. He is desperate, lets see if this one will land.
Zero pity for this jerk. None, nada, niente.
I’m going to nitpick because I hate this guy and the life of unimaginable luxury he leads (that I have to fund) all while doing the bare minimum of ‘work’ to justify his existence.
Where does the Foundation cash come from? I thought it was donors. If so saying he is ‘personally’ funding this is very different to him putting his hand in his pocket to pay for it. Even if I would argue the cash in his pocket shouldn’t by rights be his anyway.
And yes, audit trail on how this is spent.
It’s being funded by the Royal Foundation, which is dependent on donors. By adding the word personally the BM is trying to make it seem like he’s more involved than he actually is. On top of that £3 million isn’t near enough to ‘end homelessness’. That would be a billion pound undertaking that he is clearly not willing to fund.
Homelessness is a huge and ever-expanding issue in the Lower Mainland of BC. The Downtown Eastside is where some unhoused “live”, as many of the necessary resources are centred there. It’s been reported for years that well over $1M(CDN) is spent daily for medical aid, food assistance, and crisis management. Three million pounds isn’t going to do much–unless, somehow, the issues surrounding homelessness in the UK are vastly different from what’s happening in BC. Many communities all over the province are struggling with the rising numbers of “ordinary” people who have become homeless due to rising rent, transportation, and food costs.
Given how much wealth he has that is stolen from the British people and from colonized people, it is downright shameful that he is not *actually* financing this himself.
If we really want to nitpick…
The Twitter announcement says that it’s a “five-year programme committed to DEMONSTRATING that it’s POSSIBLE to end homelessness in the UK.” (emphasis mine)
So it’s not going to end homelessness. It’s just going to show how it’s possible… probably with some ideas that he stole from others, as well as financed by other donors, with credit to him.
£3,000,000 / 300,000 people / 5yrs
or
£2 per person, a year, for five years
This is the valuation of a person’s worth made by a buffoon in costume who pays no taxes on anything and has what? Six privately held homes?
Got to go vomit now
And, just like his lazy ass wife “trying to make people realize the arly yars are important” he’s going to revolutionize the way people view homelessness? Like does he think there are people thinking, ya being homeless is fine, it’s not a problem? And these supposed morons, thanks to his HUGE project will realize oh, no actually homelessness is bad!
So…..once again, repeating information that anyone over the age of 3 already knows.
And there will be zero follow-up, beyond this trumpeting. In five years, there will be someone, who thinks homelessness has been solved, by Willnot.
He definitely stole it from others. One of them being in Canada. Called none other than Homeward Trust. I think the website is Homewardtrust.ca
And even some of the same wording he copied from them.
The last time Bulliam opened his wallet a moth flew out. He’s not spending a farthing of his own money on this. And homelessness cannot be eradicated in 5 years with £3,000,000. As @TheFarmer’sWife states above, BC, where I too live, has and HAS HAD a homelessness crisis for many decades. I’m on Vancouver Island and the homeless are everywhere. Addiction deaths are skyrocketing, and vandalism and violence are rampant. There needs to be an army of trained and paid outreach staff, as well as adequate and affordable housing and drug treatment programs to reintegrate people back into jobs. Many are so badly damaged that they simply aren’t able to be rehabilitated but that shouldn’t mean they have to rely on living in tents and begging.
@jaded yes. I work in the sector with vulnerable populations. Saying that funding some houses will end homelessness just makes me … angry I guess. So simplistic so reductionist. So… disrespectful. These people do not only lack a roof. They need a job. Medical care. Psychiatric resources. A place where beloved pets are accepted. Access to education. To social programs. A reason to keep going. To feel needed. To fit into society. I’m just shaking my head.
@ SarahCS, and his salary is £24MIL per year!! Burger King could chip in £3MIL of his own money and double its reach!!! He has no bills of his own, everything is taxpayer funded from clothing to transportation. They don’t personally host anyone or anything which they could given their vast estates and castles.
My gawd, he’s a walking billionaire without paying having to pay taxes, mortgages or salaries from his own pockets. A grifter to the bone.
6 houses is good. I’m just confused as to why he’s saying he’s going to end homelessness. That’s an ambitious goal, which is good. I just don’t think he’s actually going to end homelessness in the next 5 years. Mostly, I’m baffled bc it seems grandiose and unlikely, but if he does, good on him.
6 houses with what 4 bedrooms each or 6 houses with 10 bedrooms, or hostels with 50 bedrooms…. by when? Either way, its not going to solve homelessness in anything less that 2,975 years give or take.
I’m so cynical today but these entitled twats are getting on my last nerves.
This is actually W&K’s biggest problem and one that they refuse to learn from H&M. They pick these huge goals that are nearly unsolvable given the society we live in and just set themselves up for failure. Pick smaller goals and work in increments and then you’ll make impactful change to your target group which is good! You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to keep doing good things!
Better yet, get behind a group that has already identified and started working toward an achievable goal, muster support for them and get out of the way. That will mean you don’t get to brag about how you single-handedly did it all, but it’s all in service of the greater good, right? Right?
This is their problem though, isnt it? They make these big statements about peace in the Middle East or solving childhood or stopping climate change or ending homelessness and so their projects inevitably look small compared to the big statements.
If they just said “here is a project we’re rolling out” without all the big fanfare around it, they would look a lot better IMO. By overselling themselves, they’re highlighting how little they are doing.
The Homewards UK Twitter announcement just says that it will “demonstrate” that it’s “possible” to end homelessness in the UK.
But then I see that the WK’s official Twitter says it’s a UK-wide programme to end homelessness.
Hmmm… their messaging isn’t lining up. Me thinks William and/or his staff didn’t read his brief closely enough! Whoops.
Very daft of him to say he is going to end homelessness…..
He is not bright and his advisers are not bright. He should just have announced the project plan.
Jail, he’s going to use approximately $3,375 million dollars “in six projects in flagship locations across the UK. They will bring together local stakeholders, experts and even house builders to eradicate rough sleeping, ‘sofa surfing’ and temporary hostels and bring about substantive change.”
Does that mean they’re going to get a plan together? They do know that the amount of money they’re using is insubstantial by a HUGE amount. I wonder if this will be another project like Wails’ early years. Everyone keeps studying and planning.
It’s better than nothing and it’s certainly better than the Early Childhood Research Broom Closet/“Shaping Us.” Looks like only Wills controls the purse strings at the Royal Foundation. For the purpose of making himself look better. Other than this and Earthshot, I don’t know where else the RF money goes (and am not looking it up) that isn’t back into their own pocket (via “research” for their own institution).
From the Royal Foundation financial statements we saw a couple of years ago, it didn’t look like they even had 3 million left once the Earthshot money was removed. Perhaps some shopping bags full of cash arrived since then?
Six pilot locations isn’t a bad start, but Will can’t just let that be enough. He’s such a braggart – he has to make himself a superhero/savior. He’s the heart and soul and he will end homelessness in 5 years.
Considering his trips to the middle east me thinks some oil sheikh is involved
I just saw this story making the rounds on Twitter with Williams’s name trending. I was shocked at how angry the tweets about this initiative are. They are rightfully, calling him out as the hypocrite that he is. Poor Prince is being dragged by his scalp.
Good. He currently has 3 properties completely sitting empty because he and his missus just had to move to windsor. Those properties include 10 bedroom home Amner hall, and a 20 room apartment at KP. He’s a hypocrite
Fergie announced that she had breast cancer surgery at the same time. The result was that Fergie was headline news on every paper and stole William’s thunder , only The Telegraph led with his news.
I love that for him. I feel bad for Fergie, but it sounds like she’s doing well.
It’s not clear what this new project will be doing. Will it building social housing? There many reasons for homelessness will William be lobbying government to improve social benefits? What about those who have jobs but are still homeless because of exorbitant rents? What about the issue of gentrification?
“He is committed to transforming the way we as a nation think about homelessness.”
This is what he’s doing, changing a nation’s thinking. SMH has he ever spoke to anyone who said being homeless is fine?
That money will go nowhere. It’s not enough to fund a submersible three times, let alone eradicate/“end”homelessness, even if it’s just paying people to sit around and think. It is a noble idea, William, but think again.
This is embarrassing. He set himself up to be dragged by claiming he can end homelessness is 5 years. If it was that easy it would have already happened. This is just PR and busy work for him.
And if anything positive comes from this he will take ALL of the credit.
6 houses and 3 mil aren’t going to solve the issue. He is looking to get others involved in donating time, money, and materials. Then he will take all the credit. Much like ES where others funded and he took the credit. In his environmental documentary he took credit for changes in royal properties that Phil and Charles had done. And he took credit for ivory trade being halted in China (something the US and UK governments negotiated for). This is just another day in his life.
Did someone finally tell William its ok to have more than one thing to concentrate on at a time.lol
Show dont tell, get them up and running get people in there then tell us about it. 3 mil is a lot abut also not a lot. event to refurbish anything to suit. My guess is its cosmetic fixtures and furnishings mainly for 6 homes.
This is all lip service and performance. I cannot stand this person.
To end homelessness, some major issues need to be first addressed. The breakdown of the family, addiction, mental illness and unemployment. I am hopeful but doubtful.
Exactly this. Homelessness is a hugely complex issue. Halfway houses may work for some people, but there are always people who can’t be accommodated in hostels etc. because of the rules for those places (usually, no drugs/booze, no dogs – there are many homeless people with dogs in London for example) so end up sleeping on the streets. Those are the “visible” ones that PW points out to his children as they drive past in their chauffeur-driven car.
Getting homeless people into work can be challenging too – it’s not just a question of finding them jobs, there are often complex mental health and other issues to be addressed before they can settle in a job so it’s a long process (there are charities in the UK which look specifically at this).
But never fear! PW is here! He alone will end homelessness! (While whinging on about how small his 4th house in Windsor is).
Also, £3m for 6 projects is only £500,000 per project. It really doesn’t seem that much to me.
I have reached the apathy stage with Will and Kate’s announcements. It’s always ‘they are going to do x’ or ‘they hope to achieve y’ and never “this has been done’ and ‘this has succeeded in..’
I hold no expectation that this or anything else they attach themselves to will come to anything at all. William – you may be bored with racism. I am bored with your utter uselessness and vacuity and that of your wife. It really is quite astonishing not to say damning that with all the wealth, privilege, position and influence he has that, aged 40+ he has achieved NOTHING of note.
The average price of a 2 bedroom/1bathroom terraced house in the UK, what’s called a rowhouse in the US costs over £250,000.
6 projects at £500,000 each?
Shows you how much he can house!
12 families.
In the case of 2bedroom apartments, average cost is about 125K and William can house 24 families with his £3M.
It’s nothing.
If William can solve homelessness within 5 years and using 3 million pounds spread over 5 years, then what does this say about the minister and the civil servants in charge of housing and the elected government
This is all content for Burger King’s fly on the wall documentary. I bet these six visits will be the core of his reality show, full of clips of him entering rooms to applause, shaking hands and laughing it up, then sitting with his concern face on and his shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest listening and learning.
It would be great if it actually helped change even a handful of people’s lives. It’s the least he can do considering how his position can open doors. But Burger King seems too impatient for results, and I don’t think the homeless will cooperate as easily as he thinks they will.
I’m sorry but am I the only one who thought he was opening a department store? Even the logo looks John Lewis-Esque
they paid someone a million pounds to design that logo. and it’s BAAAD.
Decades ago Maria Shriver did a report following three single mothers in the Welfare to Work program. The women were put in spacious apartments in high rises around LA at very low rent, given training and given jobs. Early on their teenagers migrated back to the projects. By the end of the piece, two of the three women and all of the teenagers had moved back to the projects. They were scared by their dead end jobs and the lack of neighborly interactions that gave them a comfort of community. No one talked to each other in the elevators, hallways and laundry rooms. One woman pointed to the cars driving by below as looking like ants and reminisced how in the projects you could see the people driving by and stop them to have conversations. Another talked about how everyone in her office hated their jobs from the boss on down because they did the same thing every day and no one told her this is what it is like to work in an office every day. The piece was an excellent illustration of how you cannot simply drop people in your definition of improvement and leave them to accept and thrive in it.
There are so many factors on why people live they way they do and providing just one or two external changes–health, housing or work–didn’t look at what is actually needed to improve a life.
I can well believe it. My uni had a similar access program for kids from disadvantaged backgrounds in North Dublin. All those that I knew from that program had dropped out of college by the end of 2nd year. 🙁
They were smart, but any combination of skipping lectures, partying, feeling out of place, and peer pressure “think you’re too good for us now?” all contributed. Neither fish nor fowl… not easy being the 1st family member to make the initial change and see it through. Representation matters so much.
Thank you @cara; I’m going to read up on this interesting report. Hadn’t heard about it until now.
Judging from the pushback from royalists and some royal reporters/commentators, William is getting roasted for this new initiative.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
Oh, good God!!! Why are these do-nothings grifters always “launching” something and never following through? It’s such complete BS, but people still act like these people are the greatest people ever, such humanitarians, so wonderful…it’s complete gaslighting and it’s so tiresome.
Hey, they never, ever get called out on not delivering–but are praised to the skies for launching empty promises. Same mess, different day . . .
I will say that this is better than I thought it would be? At least it might result in a few people getting a roof over their heads in those six houses. More meaningful than if it were an Arly Years type “awareness” campaign, or an Internet survey asking people what they think the causes of homelessness are.
William claiming he can eradicate homelessness is giving “Jared Kushner can bring peace to the Middle East” vibes.
Let’s be clear. Being Diana’s son is all he has going for him. He hasn’t done anything on his own, he has no original ideas. My only hope is he hires someone who can see this project through, so that the homeless can actually be helped.
This is actually commendable. At least someone cares about the homeless in the UK.
None cares in the USA and we have a huge problem with homelessness. So let’s not be hypocrites.
Will has no clue. I doubt he is the only one who cares about homelessness. He preaches from his ivory tower.
We care, but there are no easy answers & William pretending there are is what’s gotten many of us irritated.
There are many organizations in the US and other countries that do care, it’s just that it’s not nearly enough to make meaningful progress. We aren’t hypocrites and what William is announcing is merely performative and nothing more than an attempt to make himself look like the great white saviour. As everything else he attempts, it will flop.
No, it is not commendable. Will is using the homelessness as a PR op for himself to get some positive headlines. This dolt has pledged to end many issues and has no follow through. This man is a psychopath.
Homeward Trust has been in Alberta since about 2009..
Sounds like this is a poor copy?
Check out Homewardtrust.ca
Yes and I don’t believe homelessness has been solved in Edmonton. It certainly hasn’t in the rest of canada.
Nope. It hasnt. Edmonton, where I think it is based, has a big homeless problem. 14 years out. But Baldy will end it in 5?
Would he care to wager?
{waves to fellow YEG residents}
@Nic919 & Renae, I worked for City Council a few years ago, and Homeward was constantly putting forward proposals for housing first initiatives, trying to get councillors to champion these projects to get them funded and approved. Very little movement on that front. See also End Poverty Edmonton, which laid out a literal plan to end poverty – it’s lack of political willingness to do the work.
Add to that the general unwillingness to *meaningfully* engage with reconciliation, Indigenous generational trauma, or landback, then stir in ham-fisted anti-science approaches to addiction and mental health from the provincial government, and it’s amazing we can make any progress at all 😮💨
It shouldn’t take more than 6 months to set up 6 shelters. Or a little longer to convert a large maybe formerly a commercial space and create studio apts. and possibly larger units for a family with kids. With staff to help them with finding schools or daycare so they can work, and food assistance, medical care, job training, or clothing etc. They don’t need to build new buildings from scratch. Let’s hope his project will be done better than Brad Pitt’s in New Orleans.
I’m confused: they’re building six WHAT exactly? Six homes, like Habitat for Humanity does, or six shelters? Is a half-way house a temporary home for one family? Because that still won’t solve the cause of their homelessness. And if it’s for more than one family, then why couldn’t he donate that money to existing shelters/organizations for them to make better the current offerings? Also, I hate the logo.
I’ve been watching The Full Monty on Hulu–it’s an eight-part series revisiting the lives of the men & the city of Sheffield 25 years on. At the beginning of the series, Gaz works as a porter in a mental-health facility of some sort, and when one individual gets released he goes with him to the halfway house where he’s supposed to live for the next six weeks. That place was grim, so I’m curious to learn what Billy Boy’s halfway houses are.
BTW, The Full Monty series is terrific as it’s a clear-eyed look at health, housing, aging, jobs, relationships in today’s England. And funny! I’m delaying watching the final two episodes as then it’ll be over.
£3million to solve the estimated 300,000 homeless in the UK = £10 per person 🤦♀️
Even the commenters on the Daily Fail weren’t having it, pointing out that £3 million over five years worked out to “two quid per person” per year.
Someone also called William “Prince Baldilocks and the three hairs.”
I am interested to see the results.
Homeless situation keeps getting worse.
Actual results in helping, would be very good news.
More PR, meetings by the wealthy that do nothing but massage their egos, no thanks.
I believe that the foundation is giving half a million pounds to six locations where they will have five years to come up with a plan to end homelessness in their area.
Meanwhile people who need housing now won’t get any help.
This is an issue that requires government involvement and until they acknowledge that, it is going nowhere.
Is it wrong that my first thought was – how much money is he now making that he can tax deduct £3 million?
I suppose at least he is raising the profile of homelessness in the UK. But long-term homelessness is often such a complex issue of mental health and substance misuse as well. Without good support for this, residents can’t manage and all too often end up back on the streets or sofa jumping. Can’t see how six houses will change any of that.
As someone who works in mental health for NHS our services are on their knees! Completely dependent on the good will of staff, but we’re all burning out! Staff are leaving, going into different fields, retiring early or cutting NHS hours. Waiting list are rising as result, leaving vulnerable clients without support they need.
It’s so interesting that the PR now is “William wants to continue Diana’s legacy” when it was just a year of so ago they were talking about how unlike Harry who had taken up causes like HIV/AIDS and landmines that their mother did and talked frequently about her influence on his work that William was charting his OWN path and not chasing Diana’s ghost (as if wanting to honor your dead mother by helping other people was the worst thing in the world).
William’s said stuff around homelessness before but never with PR this over top with Diana comparisons and never with so many slights towards Charles so clise to the surface(the Express last week explicitly compared William’s new homeless initiative to the “pomp” of Charles’ coronation). It’s an amusing change up. It’ll be fun to see how far Charles lets this go on.
AHEM!
Lets recap, shall we:………….
-“PRINCE WILLIAM PLEDGES TO MAKE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HIS LIFLONG PROJECT AFTER HISTORIC FIVE-DAY TRIP TO THE REGION
June, 2018
– “Prince William Pledges Support for Bahamas Future”
March 2022
Prince William Pledges to Respect Countries Seeking Independence”
March 2022
– “Prince William Meets Colombian President After Pledge to Tackle Illegal Trade”
– “Prince William Pledges to Help Aborigines Hunt for Warrior’s Missing Skull”
– Prince William Pledges Support to Tanzania’s Anti-Poaching Crusade.”
-Sept 2018
– “Prince William Pledges His Support for LGBT Rights on Commonwealth Day”
March 2018
– “Duke of Cambridge Pledges to Save Outdoor Spaces”
July 22, 2012
‘Nuff said.
Oh wow.
Don’t forget ‘ending racism in football’ 🙄.
Exactly! Will is a psychopath!!!!
Ooh, no no no no no. ‘The future king is personally funding….’ As I said on the other post, talking loudly about what YOU will do when YOU are the boss is a bad idea. The current boss never likes that. And he’s not ‘personally funding’ anything, it’s the Royal Foundation doing the funding. The DM writers are just a William propaganda firm.
“ They will bring together local stakeholders, experts and even house builders to eradicate rough sleeping, ‘sofa surfing’ and temporary hostels and bring about substantive change.”
So he’s gonna spend $3 million on meetings. Got it.
How the heck are they going to fix ‘sofa surfing’??? People sleep on friend’s couches because they lost their job, got kicked out of the house, work but don’t make enough, etc. etc.
I assume there will be a hotline you can call if you need access to a bed and a temporary address and maybe food and interview clothing, but I am not sure if that is a step up from staying with a friend. But those are the easy cases. It will be much harder to corral the mentally ill and the substances abusers and people who can’t live near a school.
He thinks $3M will solve homelessness. It’s obvious he hasn’t done any research or…I don’t know opened his eyes and ears to the problem. There are more reasons than lack of affordable housing for why there is a large homeless population. Of course, someone who thinks they are destined by birth to rule would think he could wave his hand and throw some money to the poors and voila, problem solved. Idiot. Rant over. To end on a positive note, I hope those that receive housing are able to use that as a springboard to new and better lives.
ETA: Is he personally funding this out of Duchy funds to the Royal Foundation? Because the RF doesn’t have that much cash on hand.
Will uses the jazz hands. He is totally clueless.
Maybe he can help Kevin Costner with homeless issues.
Now that’s good, Seraphina.
Not sure what 3MM is supposed to do? Across 6 halfway houses is 500k each. Salaries and other expenses leaves almost nothing. This is not really going to help anyone. William clearly has little understanding of the issue and the complexity required to solve it. I’m going to guess he thinks giving some people a place to stay for a couple months will ‘solve’ homelessness. He is so unserious. It’s embarrassing.
The PR is so bad. £3m isn’t covering the cost of one of his homes and he’s running around talking about it’s gonna end homelessness? Be for real. It really is a lesson in narcissism isn’t it? I hope that the few people this does help really get in their feet. There’s no mention of mental health (bc that’s Harry’s thing) which is a huge reason for homelessness but sure, he’s going to cure it.
3 million pounds is a very dinky amount for a billionaire such as Bill. He’ll spend most of it on self-aggrandizing, I bet. What an asshole. And you just KNOW this “program” will fizzle away in the dust sooner than later. But go ahead, Will, SOLVE HOMELESSNESS. You are certainly a man with big, fake goals.
William wants the homeless off the streets so they will not be seen….especially in Windsor and London when the Royals prance around in jewels and regallia for their hard work ceremonies and luches out.
He has inherited Duchy of Cornwall land and monies and gets 22 million a year (not 23 million from the coffers because then he would be taxed) which is his ‘wages’ as next in line to the throne. He has sold a farm and land and houses in Wales which would have been a wonderful refuge for the homeless there or retreat to recover and learn skills but who knows where that money has gone.
At 41 years of age he has done nothing memorable or even note worthy compared to Harry and he has zero charisma. You cannot fool all the people all of the time.
Lets keep in mind , Satan was 1st. However Michael was 2nd. But we all know how that will turn out!. William and harry are no different.
Its not always being on top that gets the love.
Michael had to fight , he earned his wings from god. Harry is no different. Hes so loved, I just wish someone could tell him.
Gbu all.
It’s sad that that younger ones have a deeper capacity to care. Compassion shines much brighter .
@sammi. Would you mind explaining about the 22 million but not 23 from the coffers because of tax? So, is that the money he receives from the duchy and is not taxed?
Sammi, hear, hear. You said it all. Thank you.
This is minor but in the US, “homewards” would be technically incorrect—should be “homeward.”
This initiative is like applying a Band-Aid to a gaping wound. It’s better than nothing but it’s not solving homelessness anytime soon — or ever.
Maybe he would do better taking over the Prince’s Trust and just keep that work going?
Homelessness is a very complex issue.
3 mil is nothing
The california medicaid system is trying with Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports programs but 1 of the issues is that we don’t have the housing even if someone is capable of fully utilizing the program. We will get there but probably over the next 25 years and in 26 years we are probably going to have other problems too that will receive higher priority