Homelessness five times worse in UK than government admits as figures reveal 28,000 now sleeping rough

I was there twice last year and the homeless are WAAAY worse off then in the USA. Most of the homeless in the USA have shelter. Every homeless person I saw didn't. Redding was had the streets lined with them by dusk each night, all putting their bedrolls out and preparing to sleep - face to the sky and during snow and rain. The tunnel out of the train station was also full of homeless and disconcerting to walk through at night. I left thinking Seattle had a problem with Homelessness. Our homeless in the USA are on average far better off. Everything costs 1/3rd more in the UK, you get a size that is 1/3rd less for that and they make about a third of our wages. It's financially much harder to pull out of poverty in the UK than the US for that reason. I have no problem believing it's 28k. Thousands in Redding alone.

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