The latest rough sleeping data has been released by CLG
and it shows that yet again the number of people forced to sleep on the streets
has gone up. The count, based on a snapshot of one night in August, is supposed
to represent an estimate of the number of people sleeping rough on any one
night throughout the year. What are the CLG figures telling us? Well, on any
given night in 2016 there were an estimated 4,134 people sleeping rough
compared with 3,569 in 2015 – an annual increase of 16 per cent, 51 per cent
more than two years ago and an eye-watering 139 per cent higher than in 2010.
Read more on the CLG website.
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