Evaluation of Homelessness in Great Britain

Mathematics and Statistics for
Social Scientists

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluation on who and where people experience homelessness including its impact................1
Factors that cause homelessness..................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Today, homelessness is considered as one of the major problems that billions of people at
world level, are facing, who belong to vulnerable communities. Due to this issue, they are
suffering from many problems like hunger, mental and physical illness, family breakdown,
addictions etc., that highly impact of quality of life of them (Anderson, 2019). This Data
investigation project is based on homeless on Great Britain, to identify the root cause behind it.
For this purpose, main focus is given on Britain countries by breakdown process into some
common cities of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more. To conduct this study,
demonstration is given on who and where do people of these countries experience homelessness,
by exploring some latest raw facts, data and figures based on census report.
MAIN BODY
Evaluation on who and where people experience homelessness including its impact
Homelessness is considered as the most devastating issue, regardless of age, where its
implications mostly impact on children, in terms of emotional, psychological and physical
damage. In context with Britain, it has been evaluated that England, Wales and Scotland are
likely to be totally underestimated the condition of homelessness (Oudshoorn, Van Berkum and
Van Loon, 2018). As per research conducted by Shelter (housing charity), more than 320k
people are facing this issue. This amount is increasing continuously by 4% i.e. near about 13,000
every year, regardless of pledges taken by government for dealing with this crisis (At least
320,000 homeless people in Britain, says Shelter, 2019). In this sense, rough sleepers, people
who have accommodations but on temporary basis, are experienced problems related to
homelessness. Because they live in cars, sheds and other insecure place, therefore, also known as
sofa-surfers. Newham of east London, comes on top rank of England and considered as hotspot
for homelessness. It has been identified that one in every twenty-four people are facing problem
related to housing insecurity (Tang, Dovey and Mapstone, 2019). Similarly, 76 people in
borough and 14,500 ones, comes in category of sleeping rough and temporary accommodation
simultaneously.
People who are experiencing homelessness problem, also include those that are sleeping on
street. They are almost seventeen times more likely ones, who been victims of sexual, physical
and mental violence. It has been evaluated that more than one among three people that sleeping
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