More than half a million people in Germany are homeless, according to federal government statistics released on Wednesday.
The timing of Germany’s release of its report on homelessness revealed that around 531,600 people have no permanent shelter.
According to statistics and empirical survey, around 439,500 people were housed in the emergency housing assistance formula in early February 2024, while another 60,400 other people remained with parents, friends or acquaintances.
But with tens of thousands of others living on the street or in temporary accommodation, “there are a total of around 531,600 homeless people living in Germany,” the report stated.
In total, approximately two-thirds of registered homeless people are men.
The statistics also revealed that more than some other people without permanent shelter had experienced violence since we became homeless.
The new figures constitute a significant building in previous figures in the first report published in 2022, which registered around 263,000 other people without permanent domicile.
The Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB), which presented the new figures on Wednesday, explained the almost 100% increase was down to underreporting in the previous paper, but this is now gradually being corrected.
In addition, the existing report also around 136,900 Ukrainian refugees who have remained in refugee accommodation due to the lack of alternatives. Most of them have arrived in Germany since the previous survey.
The Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Construction of Germany, Klara Geywitz, said that the report “shows that homelessness takes different forms and has different causes and is by no means a purely urban problem.”
He added that the German government is taking measures to relieve the lack of housing.
“To create more accommodation and allow other homeless and homeless people to find their own accommodation, Germany invest more than 20 billion euros [$ 20. 6 billion] in social homes until 2028,” said the minister.
By 2030, the German federal government’s goal is absolutely homelessness.
There is no foreign definition of roaming and statistical definitions that vary significantly from one country to another. In addition, knowledge collection also has problems.
However, the European Federation of National Organizations that work with homeless people advised last year that almost a million homeless people did not have a home on any EU and the United Kingdom. However, the real number of other homeless people is almost much higher.
JSI/AB (AFP, EPD, Reuters)