The UK's Housing Crisis

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1. There are 320,000 homeless people in the UK
2. Of which 200,000 are children
3. There are 5,000 people "sleeping rough" which has tripled since 2010
4. More than one million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, albeit the figures aren't entirely accurate
5. More than four million people in the UK live in sub-standard or inappropriate accommodation

Source - BBC Briefing Housing. This is a long read. However, it is, in my opinion illuminating.

BBC Website Article (Extracting Parts of the Above)
3. Finland is the only country in Europe that has managed to massively reduce homelessness

A Little Hope
Jeff Aulton (left), 48, was a heroin addict who lived rough on the streets of Walsall. In 2018 he was one of the first people to benefit from the town’s Housing First scheme. He is now clean and has made his flat his own Martyn Matthews, 33, was a drug addict sleeping rough, until Jeff offered him a home and helped him kick his habit “I can’t thank him enough,” says Martyn

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