On the 8th October 1008, a second meeting took place between members of Bloomsbury and the City of London housing department as well as Broadway, the City of London police and Housing Justice. This was a follow-up meeting to the one held in July to discuss Operation Poncho and the focus was on the results of the decision by the City of London to suspend its street cleansing initiative.

The street cleansing initiative began in May and had involved City of London police and street cleaners asking homeless people to move so that the area they were sleeping could be cleaned with water. In the meeting in July Bloomsbury had raised concerns that the street cleansing further alienated the very people that the City were trying to reach with the rest of their homelessness strategy.

The City of London reported in this meeting that the numbers of homeless people has risen since the street cleansing had been suspended and Bloomsbury questioned whether this was due to displacement or to the lack of street cleansing. The City of London explained that they will not begin the street cleansing generally across the City but will only use it in ‘hot spots’ where there are many people sleeping and unhygienic conditions. Bloomsbury welcomed this announcement.

Broadway again reiterated that they would like to hear from homeless people in the City in order to understand how their strategy is impacting them. The effectiveness of their outreach workers was supported by Bloomsbury and Housing Justice.

It was agreed that the group would meet again in two months.