What would you do ... or, whose fault is it anyway?

Imagine that you work for a project that aims to help people who are homeless.  More than that, imagine that you work for a project that aims to help people who who are homeless and who have no recourse to public funds.

You have plans to set up a new house.  Some kind people have offered you a property and you have begun the process of looking for furniture to fill it with.  You have no money to buy furniture, so you are appealling to friends and supporters for help.  A few kind people / organisations have already responded and you can imagine having the house something like habitable in about a week.
You are in the project office on a Friday lunchtime and one of the men on your waiting list turns up for an interview.  It transpires that he is already homeless.  He has been staying with a friend but he has had to leave the house.  He has nowhere to sleep tonight.
Your new house is potentially his house but it is not ready.  In fact, you don't have any concrete offers of beds yet.
You ring around the other homeless organisations who could offer help to your client - one suggests you send your client along to see them at a given time.
One hour later your man returns to your project office - the organisation he went to cannot help.  Your man is fairly desparate and you really want to help.  The afternoon is getting late and you have plans to do some other urgent work at the end of the afternoon.  What do you do?  You are in an impossible situation. 

Who's fault is it? 
The client for coming to the UK with a weak asylum case / insufficient hard evidence? 
The Home Office for being too rigorous in protecting our borders? 
Other agenices, including those better resourced than yours, for being too restrictive in their criteria or simply not having enough beds? 
Your fault for getting into this thing in the first place?  After all, you have got good qualifications and some office skills.  You could have got a simple office job, filing folders in alphabetical order and redirecting telephone calls.
Maybe it's God's fault for allowing the situation to arise in the first place ... bringing people in need to your door and not giving you the resources to offer any kind of solution ...?

Stay tuned to abigailhousing.org.uk and I'll tell you the outcome next week ...