Homeless shame 40 years after Cathy

In her review of Brian Wood's powerful documentary Eviction, shown in too-late a slot in the No Home strand on BBC 1 on November 29 (Last night's TV, November 30), Lucy Mangan suggests someone should start screaming about the horrific eviction of families with children taking place now in Britain because the families themselves have no strength left. May I scream through your pages? Among many horrors, we saw a family with four children, three under the age of 10, freezing in a bus stop at 6pm not knowing where they could stay that night, while the mentally fragile mum tried to make a joke about how nice a bus stop it was. The programme was a Cathy Come Home for the 21st century, but with far less chance of having the same impact, partly because of the way media is now so fragmented. I tried to volunteer help, but the No Home website was not working. A government with a leadership so comfortable in their beds, with children tucked up in readiness for next day's schooling, should hang their heads in shame. I demand to know who invented that word "intentionality"? Was it John Prescott with two homes, prime minister Blair with at least four roofs and one mortgage? Sarah, the beautiful young girl who had been in a B&B for 7 months, lived on radiator-warmed baked beans and missed her GCSEs, could be the catalyst for a new homelessness campaign: Bring Sarah Home - the symbolic granddaughter of "Cathy". Yours still screaming,
Rosie Brocklehurst
St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex