There are 320,000 homeless people living in Britain

New statistics have revealed there are 320,000 people recorded as homeless in Britain, despite official government figures claiming as many as 33 councils have zero rough sleepers. The shocking analysis from housing charity Shelter suggest one in 200 people in Britain are now homeless – and the numbers keep on rising. The figures are four per cent, or 13,000 people, up on last year’s figures and equate to 36 new people becoming homeless every day. London has the highest rate...

Sunderland, Barnsley and Barking among areas with “zero rough sleepers” according to government’s shaky data

Sunderland, Barnsley, Barking and Dagenham were among the 33 councils with zero rough sleepers in 2017, according to a HuffPost UK investigation into shaky "official" government data. Charnwood, Braintree, Knowsley, Redcar and Eastleigh were also named in the government's statistics that rely on data from just one night of the year in autumn to inform policy. The investigation revealed that politicians use "snapshot" rough sleeper counts to provide data on the nationwide levels of homelessness, despite being unreliable. Last year’s figures show...

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