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Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the country’s housing crisis.

Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022.

The figures also show the number of people – including children – in temporary accommodation hit record levels in 2023, triggering warnings of a housing “emergency”.

Mike Amesbury, the shadow minister for homelessness, said: “These stats reveal a growing Tory housing emergency being felt by families in every part of the country. Over the past 14 years, the Tories have taken a wrecking ball to the foundation of a secure home, leaving Britain facing a homelessness epidemic.

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[-] john89@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 months ago

16%? Wtf? That's almost 1 in 5 people being homeless.

[-] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago

It's an increase of 16%, not to a total of 16%.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Oh, thanks for that clarification lol.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

https://xkcd.com/985/

[-] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago

The number of homeless people jumped by 16% (I assume compared to last year's numbers). That doesn't mean that 16% of people are homeless.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 5 points 6 months ago

16.6r% is one sixth. 👍

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It's title gore. I thought the same thing at first.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Homelessness jumps 16%

How is that titlegore?

I read it as "homelessness jumps 16% from wherever the fuck it was before"

It was your reading comprehension that let you down, not the headline 😂

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I understood it the second pass. Just because it's grammatically correct doesn't mean it's clearly written.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Yes... I thought 'WTF... that can't be right" then read the first sentence, went back to the title "Oh... no I didn't misunderstand, I was mislead". Bad OP.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Homelessness jumps 16%

How is that misleading?

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Jumps by 16%? Jump to 16%? I would question my own mastery of English but if others had the same problem then arguably it was not clear enough.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).

Jumped to X% is entirely different.

For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”

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