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Homeless Street People—Their Cruel Plight an Unsolved ProblemAwake!—1985 | March 22
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No one knows for sure how many homeless there are in the world, for census takers cannot find them. In the United States some experts have placed the number as high as two to three million. Whatever it is, it is growing.
Some cities have seen their homeless population increase by 100 percent in the past year. Published reports estimated the number of homeless in the city of New York to be 40,000 in 1984, and the ranks are swelling daily. Newsstand magazines in 1982 placed the number of homeless in Washington, D.C., at 10,000, whereas in 1984 estimates of 20,000 were given. Chicago’s 25,000 homeless are a big increase over last year. England has its homeless problem. So does Sweden. So do most of the major cities of Europe. In poverty-stricken countries, homelessness is an accepted way of life.
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Homeless Street People—Their Cruel Plight an Unsolved ProblemAwake!—1985 | March 22
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From 1970 to 1980 a million such rooms were destroyed or converted in the United States alone. For some cities it meant a more than 50-percent loss of single-room occupancies. For New York it was an 87-percent loss.
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Homeless Street People—Their Cruel Plight an Unsolved ProblemAwake!—1985 | March 22
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Can you imagine that in New York City alone, half of the estimated 40,000 homeless are under the age 21—20,000 of them!
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