Friends in low places

Met up with a friend who works over in a borough in the East London that is striving to reach Olympian heights. They also work in homelessness, they told me their authority doesn't take homelessness applications from victims of domestic violence. In the main they are just seeking hostel or refuges for them, so they can claim they have prevented homelessness. Is that the sound of the legal profession leaning forward to pull their judicial letters closer to them?