More than half a million people in Germany are homeless, according to federal government statistics released on Wednesday.
Germany’s second publication of its Homelessness Report revealed around 531,600 people are without a permanent shelter.
According to statistics and empirical survey, about 439,500 people were housed in the emergency housing assistance formula at the end of January, at the beginning of February 2024, while another 60,400 people stayed with family, friends or acquaintances.
But with tens of thousands of people living in the street or in transitional accommodation, “in general there are about 531,600 homeless people who live in Germany,” the report said.
In total, approximately two thirds of homeless people are men.
The statistics also revealed that more than part of other people without permanent refuge had suffered violence since we were 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 is also of around 136,900 Ukrainian refugees who remained in refugee housing due to a lack of alternatives. Most of them have come to Germany since the previous research.
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 taking measures to relieve roaming.
“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 aim is to eliminate homelessness entirely.
There is no foreign definition of housing and statistical definitions vary significantly from one country to another. In addition, there are also disorders with knowledge compilation.
However, the European Federation of National Organizations that are executed with homeless people advised last year that approximately one million other people were homeless in the EU and the United Kingdom. However, the genuine number of homeless people is almost much higher.
JSI/AB (AFP, EPD, Reuters)