> Even a simple browsing of Wikipedia will show the statement is wrong. I looked up "Homelessness in the UK" on Wikpedia and the first line is: > Homelessness

> Even a simple browsing of Wikipedia will show the statement is wrong. I looked up "Homelessness in the UK" on Wikpedia and the first line is: > Homelessness in the United Kingdom is kept somewhat at bay > by a reasonable volume of housing, statutory rights, and > various government initiatives. I don't know what figures you are looking at, but one caveat that occurs to me is that the UK's main homelessness charity, Shelter, has a fairly broad definition of homelessness. You don't have to be sleeping in the street for them to consider you "homeless". Which is good, because relying on your friends' sofas for housing is indeed a very crappy situation which government policy should seek to minimize, but bad, because that's not what other people consider homelessness to be.