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Criminalising council given wake-up call
Activists stage camp outside town hall after it tries to slap huge fines on homeless people

HOUSING campaigners will show their anger at a London council’s bid to criminalise the homeless by setting up camp on its front door.

Reclaim Hackney told the Star yesterday that activists will bunk down outside Hackney Town Hall for three days in response to newly introduced Public Spaces Protection Orders.

The council’s original PSPO banned “anti-social activities” including “rough sleeping” in increasingly gentrified east London areas such as Hackney Downs, London Fields and Broadway Market, with the threat of a £1,000 fine for rule-breakers.

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