What you need to know!
According to Crisis, over the last five years, the amount of homeless households has been steadily increasing.
There are four types of homelessness, these include:
- rough sleeping
- statutory homelessness
- hidden homelessness
- at risk of homelessness
The cost of rough sleeping is estimated at:
- £20,128 (At What Cost, 2015)
The cost for successful intervention is estimated at:
- £1,426 (At What Cost, 2015).
It also costs on average £4,000 for a homeless individual to access the NHS.
According to "Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives",
there is a:
- 77% chance that someone could sleep rough
- 53% chance that someone could be involved in street drinking
- 32% chance that someone could beg
- 10% chance that someone could be involved in prostitution.
Shelter (2019) estimated that more than 280,000 people in England were homeless. Results from their study also revealed that more than 60% of these people (170,068) were in London. In London, 1 in 52 people are homeless.
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