More than one part of a million people in Germany do not have a home, according to federal government statistics published on Wednesday.
Germany’s second publication of its Homelessness Report revealed around 531,600 people are without a permanent shelter.
According to statistics and the empirical survey, about 439,500 people were housed in the emergency housing assistance formula in early February 2024, while another 60,400 other people stayed with parents, friends or acquaintances.
But with tens of thousands of people living on the streets or in transient accommodation, “overall there are about 531,600 homeless people living in Germany,” the report said.
In total, approximately two thirds of homeless people are men.
The statistics also revealed more than half of those without a permanent shelter had experienced violence since becoming 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 of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB), which presented the new figures on Wednesday, explained that the almost one hundred percent building up under-reported in the past document, yet 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, Development and Urban Construction of Germany, Klara Geywitz, said that the report “shows that the lack of housing takes other bureaucracy and has other reasons and is not through a purely urban problem. “
She added that the German government was taking steps to alleviate homelessness.
“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 roaming and statistical definitions that vary significantly from one country to another. In addition, knowledge collection also has problems.
Nevertheless, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless suggested last year that close to one million people were homeless every night in the EU and the UK. The real number of homeless people, though, is almost certainly much higher.
JSI / AB (AFP, EPD, Reuters)