Data Investigation Project: Homelessness in Great Britain Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive data investigation into homelessness within Great Britain, examining its prevalence and impact across England, Wales, and Scotland. The analysis reveals the scale of the issue, citing statistics from various sources, including Shelter. It explores the multifaceted causes of homelessness, such as financial issues, unemployment, poverty, domestic violence, and mental illness, as well as the shortage of affordable housing. The report includes data from different regions, such as London, Wales, and Scotland, and presents statistics on the number of homeless individuals and the factors contributing to their situations. The conclusion emphasizes the complex nature of homelessness, highlighting the role of life events and the rise in temporary accommodation and sofa-surfing. The report aims to provide a clear understanding of the homeless situation in Great Britain, which is a pressing social issue.

DATA INVESTIGATION PROJECT
HOMELESSNESS
WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN.

INTRODUCTION


Being homeless is considered to be the issues for the
billions of the peoples who belong to vulnerable
communities.


There is major level of suffering from the problem
such as like hunger, mental and physical illness,
family breakdown, addictions etc., that highly
impact of quality of life of them.


This report has been based on homeless on Great
Britain focussing process into some common cities
of England, Wales, Scotland and many more.

Evaluation on who and where people experience homelessness including its impact
In the context of the Britain, the evaluation have stated abut that England, Wales and
Scotland are likely to be totally underestimated the condition of homelessness.
 As per research conducted by Shelter (housing charity), there are more than 320k
people are facing the issues which is increasing with continuous rate of by 4% i.e.
near about 13,000 every year.
 Newham of east London is holding the top position in England being the hotspot for
homelessness issues.
 As per the data every one in every twenty-four people is facing the issues of house
insecurity. In addition to that’s 76 people in borough and 14,500 ones are falling in
category of sleeping rough and temporary accommodation.

Factors that cause homelessness
■ In the context of the introducing the major
level of reason which cane have the causing of
such issue in the society can be such as financial
issues or unaffordable housing, unemployment
and poverty and different life events which can
be such as the drug addiction for the separation
form the family.
■ The other hand, women who are suffering form
the domestic violence, intense relationship and
more, or single females who are no longer to
afford the rent, suffer homelessness.

Housing
 Shortage of affordable housing as well as limited scale of its assistance programs contributes to housing crisis
and homelessness.
 Extreme poverty to the vulnerable community is extremely expensive.
 The Britain have the major issues behind being homelessness is high rates of homes in terms of tenancy and
purchasing.
 In addition, this makes the people unable to pay for getting shelter, are customary housing, lack acceptable and
often sleep at streets

Poverty
■Poverty make the people unable to pay for food,
childcare, housing, health care and education.
 People are suffering from the high illness due to
malnutrition, kick by accident or experience of
homeless, losing of job and more.
 As per the data it has been stated as cost of a single
individual or sleeping rough in Britain for 12
months is about £20,128, where successful
intervention costs for same includes £1,426.
 There is the major level of impact of the education
cost which is revealed as in the year 2015 was
costing to £17,000 per year.

Domestic Violence
 The woman suffering from the situation on the abusive relationships are forced to leave the
homes.
 As per the women have strong level of connection in domestic violence and homelessness in
which ferocity against females leads them to get life on the streets.
Mental Illness
 This have following of the major factors such as poverty, personal vulnerability and disaffiliation.
 There have been increase mental illness with impairment in ability for being resilient and
resourceful.
 . In England, more than 280,000 people are experiencing homelessness in 2017, with thousands
are more at risk for the same.

Interpretation of above tables
■LONDON
 The country has the high level of homelessness crisis along with widening the net of poverty. They have the
inclusion of provision of breakdown of emotional and mental health in the continuous increasing order.
 In the year 2019, 135k children are living in temporary accommodation along with 726 people have been
died in 2018 in England and Wales.
 There have been 22% hikes as comparative to the previous years including people of average age was 45
years old men, 43 years old homeless women.
 There is relatively 75% more increase in data as comparative to 2010 which seemed to be stuck in sofa-
surfing or temporary accommodation.
■WALES
 In the country survey 2019, it has been evaluated as there over 86.8 per 10k households were assessed as
homeless as comparative to previous year it was at the rate of 84.0 in 2017-18 and 81.9 in 2016-17.
 As per the Section 73 of the new legislation. The highest number of the homeless are at 2174.