Poland only has low homelessness because all the Polish homeless people left to Germany and Austria. There are 15,000 polish homeless in Berlin alone and tens of thousands more in cities all over Europe. If all those people would have stayed in Warsaw, it would be much worse than any Western European city and rival some American cities for homelessness.
Since the source is in german, I should probably explain it.
Bis zu 5.000 obdachlose Polen leben auf den Straßen Berlins
There are 5000 polish people homeless in Berlin. This number is, however, a point-in-time count - which means, it's the number of affected people on a single day. In order to get to the annual figure, we need to multiply this number by ~2,8 - 3.
Jeder zweite Obdachlose in der deutschen Hauptstadt ist Pole
Half of Berlins homeless are polish. In total, there are around 30.000 affected people per year so my claim of 15.000 polish homeless in Berlin kinda checks out.
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u/KX_Alax Austria 2d ago
Poland only has low homelessness because all the Polish homeless people left to Germany and Austria. There are 15,000 polish homeless in Berlin alone and tens of thousands more in cities all over Europe. If all those people would have stayed in Warsaw, it would be much worse than any Western European city and rival some American cities for homelessness.