Homelessness is not a nice thing to see!
it also does not look good for a town to have this so visible.
The sad thing about this is that we are taking millions of illegal migrants and lavishing new homes, hotels, mobile phones, food, clothes, medical care and more on them, yet the government would never treat an illegal migrant like these people in the pictures!
There is something seriously wrong with the country.
Thank you to Jenny for the pictures taken today.
Homeless population information
Homeless charity Shelter estimated in 2024 that the number of people in England who were entirely homeless or in temporary accommodation was 354,000.
Rough sleepers are only a small proportion of the homeless.
Crisis estimates there are roughly 12,300 rough sleepers in the UK and also 12,000 people sleeping in sheds, bins, cars, tents and night busses. The figure is derived from research by Heriot-Watt University.
According to figures from the Department of Communities and Local Government, the number of people registered as homeless with local councils was just over 100,000 in 1998, rose to 135,000 in 2003 before declining in the years up to and during the Great Recession.
After a low of 40,000 in 2009 and 2010, the figure rose to just under 60,000 in 2017. The number living in temporary accommodation rose from 50,000 in 1998 to 100,000 in 2005, declining back to 50,000 in 2011, then rising to 80,000 in 2017.
The number of rough sleepers was 4,800 in 2017 compared to 1,800 in 2010, when comparable records begin. Crisis attributes rising homelessness to a shortage of social housing, housing benefits not covering private rents and a shortage of homeless prevention schemes for people leaving care.
Of homeless people who died in 2017, the average age was 44 for men and 42 for women. Suicide, drugs including alcohol, are the most common causes of death among the homeless in the UK.
There are documented cases of homeless being traumatically crushed by trash compacting machinery when sleeping in disposal bins.
In 2023, the number of homeless people in England hit record levels, with 104,510 people in England in temporary accommodation.
An estimated 3,898 people slept rough in England in 2023, over double the estimated figure from 2010
From wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom
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