The variety of folks registered as homeless in Germany rose sharply to round 532,000 final yr, a authorities report mentioned on Wednesday.
In 2022, the determine was round 263,000. However round 137,000 Ukrainians who’ve come to Germany since Russia’s invasion depend in the direction of the homeless figures as they’re nonetheless in short-term lodging.
The federal government report mentioned the statistics may be misleading as a result of many services and lodging for the homeless have been closed in 2022 as a result of coronavirus restrictions.
By far nearly all of these listed as homeless final yr have been housed in state-run lodging or with relations and buddies.A minority of homeless folks dwell on the streets and of those, the overwhelming majority have German citizenship.
