Я не знаю, что там в и-нете. Я знаю, что будучи в NY, часто встречаешь грязных и вонючих бездомных. При чём - это отнюдь не нелегалы. А вот в Лондоне, тем-более в Берлине их как-то не видно. Опять-же кроме внобь прибывших нелегалов. Это о чём говорит? Либо о цене на жильё, либо о законах по выселению неплательщиков...
Вы решили, что чего-то не знать, но продолжать об этом рассуждать делает вам честь?:
"•Rough sleeping numbers continue to rise in London. Overall, 3,673 people slept rough in London during 2009-10, compared with 3,472 people in 2008-09. A total of 1,549 people were seen rough sleeping on the streets of London between July and September this year. This is a 19% increase - 250 people - compared with the previous quarter, and 108 more people than seen rough sleeping in the same period last year.".
http://www.mungos.org/press_office/727_ ... ers-rising"..People who sleep rough end up on the street for a variety of reasons. But we can, however, make some generalizations about homeless people. More than 2400 of them sleep rough every night in Greater London including inner London.
There are thousands of homeless people live in bed & breakfast, hostels in Greater London. We also know that one in ten are women and that one in six are under 25 and one in 14 over 60.
BECOMING HOMELESS
This type of family background can lead to difficulties relating to other people, heavy drinking, drug abuse and mental illness. These problems, coupled with difficulties finding suitable housing and unemployment, lead to homelessness. When rough sleepers were asked what the trigger was for them first becoming homeless, the most common reason given are;
* Relation breakdown =39%
* Heavy drinking= 21%
* Losing job= 18%
* Having no money to pay for housing=13%
STAYING HOMELESS
Those rough sleepers who do not have a drink, drugs or mental health problem may find that the conditions on the streets create one. It is estimated that-
* Over half have mental health problems
* Around a half have drink problems
* And a fifth have drug problem "
http://www.kalimata.co.uk/true-facts.php"Despite Germany’s continuing economic strength, the number of people declaring bankruptcy is increasing among the young and the elderly – a worrying sign according to one of the country’s top credit rating agencies.
An analysis by the Bürgel company, a subsidiary of Allianz, found that 136,000 Germans declared bankruptcy last year, a 2.2 percent decrease over 2010. But personal bankruptcy’s among people over sixty increased by 6.7 percent to 10,173 cases. People between 18 and 25 saw an increase in declared bankruptcies of about 1 percent.
The German state with the highest number of bankruptcies last year was North Rhine-Westphalia with 32 389, while Bavaria with 15,202, had the fewest.
Bürgel CEO Norbert Sellin attributed the struggles of the elderly to decreasing pensions and state-provided benefits which are forcing many to take menial jobs.
Among young people, Sellin blamed poor financial management – such as young people needlessly investing in too many electronic gadgets – and inexperience dealing with money.
“Although we have had a decline in bankruptcy numbers thanks to an improved situation in the labour market and a correspondingly favourable economic situation in Germany, the number of bankruptcies remain too high,” Sellin said in a statement.
Sellin added that he thought the number of bankruptcies would stay constant into 2012..."
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120224-40931.html"The Senate of Berlin, the government of Germany’s capital, supports the homeless with housing and asks for statistics in the process (for example figures for number of overnight stays), but this approach puts off the homeless: “We don’t do that and neither do a great number of other non-profit organisations and therefore there is no data.”
Düllick adds that the figure that keeps being mentioned is 10,000-12,000 homeless people, but this is not confirmed. To complicate matters, Germany distinguishes between people who are homeless (wohnungslos= housed by the state in emergency housing or homes) and those who have no shelter (obdachlos=no home, i.e. living in the street)."
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