Homelessness in Singapore is a rather difficult concept to grasp. For most of us, the garden city entails clean, sparkling streets, where sights of beggars are few and rare.
We don’t give pay much attention to the homeless in Singapore, much less talk about it. Yet, in reality, the homeless situation is worse than we think, especially when there are about 1,000 homeless people sleeping on the streets of Singapore.
According to a nationwide study, 500 volunteer fieldworkers covered 12,000 blocks of flats and other public and commercial spaces over three months, to count the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets.
47% of the homeless people interviewed cited unemployment, irregular hours or low pay as the main reasons for sleeping rough on the streets. The other main reasons were due to strained family relations, and a lack of access to housing services.
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