Thursday, March 3, 2016

More and more homeless people in the Netherlands – NU.nl

That’s 13,000 more homeless people than in 2009. The number of homeless people has actually increased by 74 percent in six years, the Central Bureau reports for Statistics (CBS) on Thursday.

The department has not conducted done to the cause, but to keep the increase seems related to the economic crisis.

the number of homeless people grew the most in 2009 and 2010, in the first years of the slump. “This indicates that a group was before the crisis, on the brink of poverty,” said CBS chief demographer Jan Latten.

“Those people lost their jobs and could not pay their rent. In good times save these people like, but if it is economically heavy weather, they are the first victims. And it’s been hard times. For people who had saved differently though, the crisis may be just the proverbial drop have been. “



Doubled

the number of homeless immigrant increases. That’s almost doubled from 6,500 to 13,000. Among immigrant Dutch is more unemployment and more poverty than among natives.

“And if they do work, it is often lower paid jobs. In addition, not all immigrants have a social network around them. If they become unemployed, nobody can catch them at The crisis has non-Western immigrants become stronger than natives, “says Slats

by:. ANP

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