Government Fails To Count Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rough Sleepers

Hundreds of thousands of rough sleepers are not being recorded in official government data, meaning the true scale of the homeless crisis is vastly underreported. The government’s use of “snapshot” rough sleeper counts on just one night of the year in autumn are being used to provide data on the nationwide levels of homelessness, despite being unreliable. This data is used to determine resources given to councils to tackle their homelessness problem. 33 of 326 local authorities in England recorded zero rough sleepers for 2017 because council officers recorded no rough sleepers on the one night they collected the data between October 1 and November 30. Read more on the HuffPost website.

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