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Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Comments are welcome while open. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. Join the conversation Create account. At least 15 homeless people died in just one month Eurasianet , It is estimated that there are roughly 20 million people lacking adequate housing, with the majority living in slums and other forms of temporary housing Al Arabiya , A fifth of the population lives below the national poverty line CIA , There are around 4.
There are an estimated , Filipino children living on the street New Mandala , The South Korean government classified over 11, people nationwide as homeless in , with 1, living on the street, 9, living in nursing and rehabilitation facilities, and in temporary facilities Korea Bizwire , This is up from 12, in This number does not include rough sleepers who are not registered.
There is also a major crisis in refugee accommodation currently in Austria. In , approximately 85, refugees asked for protection. In , 22, asylum seekers were still being housed in the Federal Care Scheme. From one count in , there were 3, people experiencing homelessness in Brussels. In Flanders in , there were in winter emergency accommodation, 4, houseless people including 1, children, and people threatened with eviction counted during a one month survey.
In Wallonia, 5, people used the emergency accommodation scheme in Over 2. As a result of the war, approximately 99, were still living in displacement in IDMC, The unemployment rate as of was In September , 1, people were registered as homeless, but the real number is likely much higher since this only accounts for people with government-issued IDs who have signed up in those facilities.
The most vulnerable people at risk of homelessness are refugees, the Roma minority, elderly, and young people out of foster homes.
Borgen Project, More than 40 per cent of Bulgarians are at risk of poverty and social exclusion Irish Times, The population living below the poverty line is currently Currently According to the Croatian Network for the Homeless, there are more than 2, homeless people in Croatia, half of them located in Zagreb.
If it were, the figure would be closer to 5, Balkan Insight, The estimates for people actually living without a home is 68, — Of this figure, Recent data shows an increase in homeless people by 1, since However, the age group that had the most significant rise in homelessness is among 18 to year-olds, due to economic instability and a weak housing market CPH Post , In , at least 39 unders were found to be homeless, five without their parents Project Outside , The latest count marked 6, homeless people in Denmark Hus Forbi , There has been a recent trend of rising homelessness in England.
On any given night, there are 4, people sleeping rough Shelter , Households in temporary accommodation has risen from 48, in to 78, in EOH , In , there were 7, homeless people in Finland, with sleeping rough, in hostels, in institutions, and 5, living with family or friends FEANTSA , In , around , adults in French cities used some form of emergency accommodation or soup kitchen.
This number includes 30, children. Excluding refugees the number of homeless people sits at , to , EOH , There is no official strategy for gathering information on homelessness in Greece. The country also has the highest level of unemployment in Europe at A yearly NGO-led survey recorded 10, homeless people in Hungary, with 3, sleeping on the street and 6, in hostels. However, this survey only collects data on people connected to shelters or volunteer teams, so the number could be much higher FEANTSA , Between and , homeless people died of cold or exposure in the capital.
In , the UN considered In Spring of there were people found sleeping on Dublin streets Focus Ireland , During the economic crisis, the rate of homelessness tripled in Italy. Poverty in Italy was at its highest in ten years in , with 5. Homelessness has been on the rise in Lithuania. Data shows that homelessness has been steadily rising over the last decade European Commission , There were 4, homeless people recorded in , with 2, living in homeless shelters and 2, living in mother and children crisis centres.
An average of 13 homeless people per month had their housing applications closed due to death from October to August The Detail , The number of homeless people in Norway has dropped from 6, in to 3, in EOH , It is thought that a long-term focus on residential social work and viewing homelessness as a housing problem has been essential in reducing numbers Norway Today , They include Erie St. Changes in the age and gender composition of the study population, as well as shifts in the distribution of the population across the LHIN s, are examined from to As these are population-based metrics, confidence intervals are not required because sampling error is absent.
HiREB deemed the study exempt from review based on the regulation and oversight of data held by ICES and on the basis that the study does not require access to locally held data or participant contact. From to , 39, unique individuals were identified as experiencing homelessness. The annual number of patients experiencing homelessness who presented to an ED in Ontario was relatively flat from to After , the number of unique patients visiting the ED increased until the last year of observation in , during which 9, unique people experiencing homelessness visited an ED in Ontario Figure 1.
The demand for ED visits by this population fluctuated considerably throughout a given year. Weekly visits by unique patients experiencing homelessness exhibit cyclicality corresponding to the seasons of the year. The average peak in the number of visits occurred in September, with over unique patients per week.
The minimum number of visits occurred in January, with visits per week Figure 2. The rise in the number of unique patients experiencing homelessness was not uniform but rather was concentrated in specific age cohorts. This is most prominent in cohorts of working-age individuals younger than 40 Figure 3 , with an inverse correspondence between age and increase in homelessness. Homelessness among men became a much younger phenomenon through the period of observation, and especially after The modal person experiencing homelessness in was a male in the to age category.
By , the modal person experiencing homelessness had become a male in the to age category. The number of unique male patients per year more than doubled for males in the younger-than, to, to, to and to age categories over the period of observation. The number of unique female patients per year similarly doubled in the to, to and to age categories, although the modal female was in the to age category in both and People in these younger categories made up a greater percentage of the overall population of people experiencing homelessness as time passed, relative to those in the to age categories Figure 4.
The geographic distribution of unique patients experiencing homelessness also changed over time across Ontario. Although the number of patients experiencing homelessness increased across all LHIN s Figure 5 , there was a proportional increase in the number of unique patients experiencing homelessness in LHIN s outside Toronto through the study period Figure 6.
Conversely, relative increases in the number of patients experiencing homelessness who visited ED s in the LHIN s that include Hamilton and Windsor led to an increase in the overall proportion of patients experiencing homelessness in these regions.
This study characterizes the demographics and geographic distribution of people experiencing homelessness who visited ED s in Ontario, Canada. There are four key results on homelessness. First, the overall number of people experiencing homelessness who visited ED s increased. Second, this rise was concentrated in the working-age population, specifically in younger adults. Third, there were geographic shifts toward areas outside the historical centre of homelessness, Toronto, during the period of observation.
Lastly, the weekly count of homelessness fluctuated significantly over the year, with peaks in the fall and troughs in the winter. This study adds to a young literature that uses administrative health data to assess the population of people experiencing homelessness.
Note 13 A previous study of homelessness using a similar approach identified 11, people in Ontario who experienced homelessness in and an estimate of 54, across the year study period. Note 11 This contrasts with the 8, people experiencing homelessness identified in and the 39, individuals who were observed in the province from to in the current study.
An optimal algorithm for generating provincial estimates includes the use of any CIHI database indicator; Note 11 however, the sensitivity of case ascertainment in the current study may have been diminished by the inability to extend the time intervals for each reference year.
Note 11 The overall number of the study population is also higher than any of the annual numbers of unique individuals in the current study.
This may be an artifact of how homelessness is assessed, as people require contact with an ED to be counted. Alternatively, this difference may also suggest a turnover of people experiencing homelessness in Ontario. The modal person who experienced homelessness was a man of working age presenting in Toronto; the possibility of these patients moving in and out of homelessness at a relatively rapid rate is congruent with previous findings that most single men stay in the shelter system only briefly.
Note 5. The finding that homelessness in Ontario rose over time is consistent with other literature that found that homelessness has been increasing across Canada.
Note 2 Note 14 This study found that this rise occurred almost exclusively in younger populations, especially people younger than This may be the result of several factors, including a lack of affordable housing, Note 1 Note 15 Note 16 Note 17 Note 18 Note 19 increasingly unstable work arrangements, Note 14 Note 20 and rises in mental illness and substance use. Note 21 The cause is not necessarily clear, but these results provide evidence on the demographic policy makers need to target to reduce homelessness and reverse this trend.
Policy makers also need to know where homelessness is a problem to target resources for reducing its prevalence. These results delineate two salient facts on the geography of homelessness in Ontario. As demonstrated in other literature, Note 1 Toronto is the centre of homelessness in Ontario.
However, homelessness became less geographically concentrated over the study period. This decrease suggests the possible displacement of people experiencing homelessness to areas outside Toronto, where housing and living costs have been rising rapidly. Note Lastly, the ED is a major potential location where interventions targeting homelessness might be initiated.
Patients experiencing homelessness may have more complex needs and require more specialized health care than the general population. Standard ED resources may be unable to adequately address these needs.
These data provide information on when this population could be expected to increase its health care use, enabling potential interventions to be targeted to help increase resources.
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