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What are the top priorities of people working in homelessness?
According to Oxfam, poverty and homelessness are worldwide concerns. Results from a poll of 24,000 people over 24 countries showed the two issues are top-tier concerns for people in 15...
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What are the statistics on homelessness due to divorce?
This question came from Joy via our latest website survey. Though she specifically asked about divorce, I’ll respond with information on general relationship breakdown as well, as not all people...
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What is the immunization rate among the homeless?
Do you have any estimate of immunization rates among people living on the street or in shelters? That’s such a good place to communicate disease among already weakened people. In...
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How many homeless people live with disabilities?
The Ontario Human Rights Code has a rather long definition of disability, but it can be loosely summarized as any physical or mental condition that affects mobility, understanding, learning or...
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What are the top 10 health issues homeless people face?
This blog was updated in 2021 to reflect new research and data. See the updated version here. Over the past two decades, much research has been dedicated to exploring the relationship...
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Is giving homeless people menial work exploitative or helpful?
Last week, a reader alerted us to this 2013 story, in which BBH Labs paid 13 homeless people to walk around Austin, Texas carrying 4G wireless hotspots during South by...