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I'd argue that most beggars in Leeds are not genuine. Most genuine beggars find help at shelters. There were only 13 rough sleepers in Leeds in 2015, and in a city of 800,000 that isn't a lot.
Beggars are not too common here, most you find at a busy intersection here and there.
Wes Straub is from Calgary, and he didn't appreciate my joke in spring when I said on FB "seems that Calgary is quite on fire these days". (It was during the massive forest fires).
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I'd argue that most beggars in Leeds are not genuine. Most genuine beggars find help at shelters. There were only 13 rough sleepers in Leeds in 2015, and in a city of 800,000 that isn't a lot.
Rough sleepers = homeless? That's not a lot indeed. In Turku we are talking about 250 people, but the true number might be up to 500.
Wes Straub is from Calgary, and he didn't appreciate my joke in spring when I said on FB "seems that Calgary is quite on fire these days". (It was during the massive forest fires).
Rough sleepers = homeless? That's not a lot indeed. In Turku we are talking about 250 people, but the true number might be up to 500.
No, I mean people who literally sleep on the streets, i.e the people you see sleeping in doorways. The number of homeless people is higher - this includes families who live in temporary accommodation. There are 170 households in Leeds who are considered homeless - in 2011. I can't find more recent figures but it will certainly be higher now. The number of homeless people declined very sharply in the 2000s, and England was on course to have no rough sleepers at all. Then the Tories got into power and all of that changed - the number has risen sharply.
No, I mean people who literally sleep on the streets, i.e the people you see sleeping in doorways. The number of homeless people is higher - this includes families who live in temporary accommodation. There are 170 households in Leeds who are considered homeless - in 2011. I can't find more recent figures but it will certainly be higher now. The number of homeless people declined very sharply in the 2000s, and England was on course to have no rough sleepers at all. Then the Tories got into power and all of that changed - the number has risen sharply.
Ok. If we look at the whole country, there are around 400 rough sleepers overall. Half of them are in Helsinki, and the others mostly divided between Turku, Tampere and Lahti. (These numbers do not include squatters).
The numbers of rough sleepers have shrunk for 8 consecutive years.
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