Essential Homelessness Statistics

Essential Homelessness Statistics

by Richard Frazer

Attached are some essential real statistics from 2010 done by St Mungo (Homelss Charity - http://bit.ly/A6flsg) around UK Homelessness.

Some results from our 2010 survey are shown below:

•76% of clients were male
•24% of clients were female
•39% of clients were from BME communities
•64% of clients had issues with substance use (drugs and/or alcohol)
•64% had a physical health condition (medical condition, vision or hearing impaired and/or required regular medication)
•70% of clients had mental health issues (diagnosed, suspected, depression and/or self harming)
•54% of clients had educational needs (learning disabilities, difficulty reading, difficulty with numeracy, managing money and paying bills)
•8% had been in care
•48% of clients were ex-offenders or had been in prison
National statistics


•Government's Communities and Local Government statistics - http://bit.ly/AgVwZC

•Information from Homeless Link, the umbrella organisation for homelessness agencies -http://www.homeless.org.uk/

London statistics - http://homelesslondon.org/details.asp?id=LP82

•See figures from CHAIN, the Combined Homeless and Information Network -http://broadway.jamkit.com/Home

•Birmingham Homeless: St Basils (Birmingham Charity) - http://www.stbasils.org.uk/

•Manchester Homeless Review 2008 (Nothing more recent?) - http://bit.ly/yh8CxO

•Research Forum (Headed by Homeless Link) http://www.homeless.org.uk/research-forum

Lets get an understanding of this problem
RICHARD