RE: Sorry, the system's broken!
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I read an article a few years ago which said that they're were only 4,000 homeless people in the UK. I was surprised as the number seemed so low considering the population and thought that it had to be incorrect.
I'd always thought that the UK was in much better shape than your progeny here across the pond until I heard back from my Brit classmates in Germany about the reality of the situation. It makes me wonder what the impact will be over time of the seemingly endless supply of asylum seekers being fished out of our English Channel and escorted into your country.
One wonders if a few of these billionaires might step up to the plate and put their patriotism to work at building social housing and donating it to the local councils. This is what I'd be doing if I was Elon Musk rich as a way of giving back to the country which helped to make me so rich. Less multiple mansions, more social housing.
What a lovely idea.
There are definitely more than 4000 homeless people in the country, no idea where that figure came from!
Ultimately we do need more houses, we have plenty of room! But it's not just that there is a tonne of low quality housing with damp and mould problems, they also need sorting out!
Another factor is lonely old people in massive ex family homes that can't afford to heat them, it's bonkers.
The distribution is just all wrong!