From The Guardian:
A triple crunch of recession, cuts and the high cost of living has seen an "alarming" jump in the number of homeless people recorded by the government, warn charities.
According to an analysis by Homeless Link, the umbrella body for more than 500 charities, the number of households accepted as homeless by councils in England has increased by 13% to 35,680 in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period in 2010...
Ho hum. That means for every seventy homeless people there is one charity.
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Fun With Numbers
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Theo Dalrymple has written about exactly this. "The poor are a goldmine" he always says.
Well, say that 35,000 homeless people could be accommodated in 20000 households at £300/month, that gives an expenditure of £72M a year, which works out at £144,000 per charity per year.
I think housing the homeless would be cheaper, with the added bonus of getting rid of a few fakecharities.
RA, yup.
B, agreed.
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