More than half a million people in Germany are homeless, according to federal government statistics released on Wednesday.

The timing of Germany’s release of its report on homelessness revealed that around 531,600 people have no permanent shelter.

According to statistics and empirical survey, about 439,500 people were housed in the emergency housing assistance formula at the end of January, at the beginning of February 2024, while another 60,400 people stayed with family, friends or acquaintances.

But with tens of thousands of people living in the street or in transitional accommodation, “in general there are about 531,600 homeless people who live in Germany,” the report said.

In total, approximately two-thirds of registered homeless people are men.  

The statistics also revealed that more than some other people without permanent shelter had experienced violence since we became homeless.

The new figures constitute a significant building of the previous figures in the first report published in 2022, which registered around 263,000 other people without a permanent home.

The Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction (BMWSB), which presented the new figures on Wednesday, explained that the construction of almost one hundred percent under the sub -disclaration in the last document, but now gradually corrected.

In addition, the existing report also about 136,900 Ukrainian refugees who have remained in refugee accommodation due to a lack of alternatives. Most of them have arrived in Germany since the previous survey.

Germany’s Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Construction, Klara Geywitz, said the report “shows that homelessness takes on other bureaucracy and has other reasons and is not a purely urban challenge. “

He added that the German is taking steps to mitigate homelessness.

“To create a more affordable home and allow other homeless and homeless people to find their own homes, Germany is making an investment of more than € 20 billion [$ 20. 6 billion] in social homes until 2028,” said the minister .

By 2030, the German federal government’s goal is absolutely homelessness.

There is no foreign definition of roaming and statistical definitions that vary significantly from one country to another. In addition, knowledge collection also has problems.

However, the European Federation of National Organisations Running with the Homeless advised last year that approximately one million other people were homeless at night in the EU and in the UK. However, the genuine number of homeless people is almost much higher.

jsi/ab (AFP, EPD, Reuters)