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Homelessness is in part a direct result of families migrating from rural to urban cities and urbanization. [12] Migration to urban areas can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from loss of land, need for sustainable employment, lack of clean water and other resources, and in some cases like the Bargi Dam Project, loss of all property and complete displacement. [13]
Homelessness in Greece Grenada: 68 2011 6.4 6.4 [36] Homeless in national census seems to mean unsheltered. High variance after hurricanes. Guatemala: 475,000 2012 [37] 315 Haiti: 310,000 2024 [38] 261 Honduras: 150,000 2020 [39] 148 Hungary: 6,944 2022 [9] 7.2 Homelessness in Hungary Iceland: 349 2017 [20] 10.0 India: 1,770,000 2011 [40] 12.6 ...
Because it is difficult to obtain precise and accurate statistics about street children, information about their ages is approximate. Most of the street children in India are over 6, and the majority is over 8. [4] The mean age of street children in a National Institute of Urban Affairs study in 1989 was 13 years. [3]
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.
Volunteers say such scenes are playing out daily across India, as labourers and waste pickers - most of them homeless or too poor to afford a meal - are among the hardest hit by Prime Minister ...
Homelessness includes not only rough sleeping (its most visible form) but also living in temporary accommodation and hidden forms of homelessness – i.e. through staying with family and friends, couch surfing, or living in unsuitable housing that cannot be described as a normal home for any person.
This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked according to poverty as of 2022 (2021–22) as hosted by NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals dashboard; and Reserve Bank of India's 'Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy'.
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