🏠 Homelessness

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Homelessness 🏠

What does it mean to be homeless? Is it crashing on a friend’s couch when times are tough? Living in a car, checking into motels or shelters when you can? Does it only apply when you’re rough sleeping, so to speak, in the streets of a town?

With different countries answering these questions differently (and homeless people being generally less documented in national registries), it can be tough to get comparable statistics. Nonetheless, there are some clear surprises among the generally developed countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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