{"id":95887,"date":"2019-09-06T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/london-is-transforming-its-double-decker-buses-into-homeless-shelters"},"modified":"2019-09-06T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:02:26","slug":"london-is-transforming-its-double-decker-buses-into-homeless-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/london-is-transforming-its-double-decker-buses-into-homeless-shelters","title":{"rendered":"London is transforming its double-decker buses into homeless shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/london-is-transforming-its-double-decker-buses-into-homeless-shelters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An inviting massage table, a snug chair, a sunlit field of grass \u2013 this is not a holiday resort but one of London\u2019s famous double-decker buses, which this summer will house up to 40 homeless people.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fleet of four decommissioned buses has been converted by British-based social enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/buses4homeless.org\/about-buses-4-homeless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buses4Homeless<\/a> into a shelter for homeless people, with spaces for sleeping, dining, cooking, job training and relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most crucial thing for anyone is shelter, having a place to stay,\u201d said Buses4Homeless founder Dan Atkins, from the buses\u2019 temporary site in Croydon, south London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s what\u2019s sorely missing in London as the number of beds in night shelters gets slashed and housing remains unaffordable for too many,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inviting massage table, a snug chair, a sunlit field of grass \u2013 this is not a holiday resort but one of London\u2019s famous double-decker buses, which this summer will house up to 40 homeless people. A fleet of four decommissioned buses has been converted by British-based social enterprise Buses4Homeless into a shelter for homeless [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}