The Public Interest Law Unit at Lambeth Law Centre has brought the legal challenge, which will be made up of three cases between the Home Office and people from the EEA who at some point in their lives have been rough sleepers. These cases will be spread over three days.
According to Inside Housing:
“Since 2016 the Home Office has designated rough sleeping as “misusing” EU free movement rights and has been detaining or removing EEA nationals found to be sleeping rough.
Home Office guidance states rough sleeping by an EEA national “may be a misuse of a right to reside, therefore EEA nationals or their family members encountered sleeping rough may be subject to administrative removal”.
The guidance adds that this removal should only take place if it is “considered proportionate”.
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