According to the magazine "Street Lamps", the Croatian magazine about homeless people, there is a significant increase in the number of homeless people:
- ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ญ: 50% more families in temporary accommodation than 2010
- ๐ ๐ณ๐ง๐ค๐ญ๐ฒ: 1 of 70 people are now homeless, most of them became homeless since 2011
- ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ญ: 75% more young homeless people since 2009
- ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ณ๐จ๐ : less than 500 places in homeless shelters, the needs are many times greater
Eurostat (a part of the ๐ค๐ด ๐ช๐บ administration, with main responsibilities, are to provide statistical information) is not collecting any statistics on homeless people. It's scandalous.
The only light point is the data obtained from ๐จ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฏ (International Network of Street Papers):
- ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ฃ: 10% less homeless in the last 3 years
Winter is coming, December has the largest percentage of suicide for the whole year, and some homeless people are frozen if temperatures fall below zero. Please help a homeless person get back on their feet, now is the right time!
News Loretta H. talks to Street Roots about her journey to becoming a Street Roots vendor and the ways in which selling the magazine is giving her hope for the future. Donate to support ๐จ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฏ's work with street papers and the thousands of homeless people that they support.