r/europe • u/xCheezyCZ • 2d ago

Picture Every country stressing about homeless people, meanwhile Poland with double side benches:

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u/KarlWhale Lithuania 2d ago

If I remember correctly, Poland and Baltic states have very low homelessness.

There are people that scour through trash bins to collect enough bottles. But they are technically not homeless since they live in old soviet apartments

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u/4th_Fleet Slovenia 2d ago

Poland and Baltics homelessness looks pretty average for an EU country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

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u/folk_science 2d ago edited 17h ago

According to this list, Poland and Estonia have 8.0 homeless people per 10 000 people, Lithuania has 14.1, Latvia has 35.3. This is while Czechia has 22.0, Sweden 25.9, Germany 32.9, Greece 37.1, France 48.7, UK 56.1 (so 7 times more than Poland). To their credit, Italy only has 8.4 and Spain 8.6.

EDIT: Malta has 4.6, Croatia has 4.9, Slovenia 5.0, Romania 7.0, Hungary 7.2, Finland 7.9.

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u/4th_Fleet Slovenia 1d ago

UK is not in EU and you conveniently left out all the EU countries that do better than Poland and Estonia. Malta, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Finland are all below 8.0 and Portugal has 8.0.

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u/folk_science 17h ago

You are right, I added the below 8.0 countries to my comment.