Tag: homeless

• Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 08:51 UTC

  English charity claims homelessness in rural areas has climbed 40% in past five years

  

  British Countryside Charity, formerly Council for the Protection of Rural England, CPRE, claims that homelessness in rural England has increased 40% over the past five years, and illustrates with figures, 17,212 in 2018 o 24,143 this year.

• Sunday, December 12th 2021 - 19:47 UTC

  Storms leave almost 3,700 homeless in Brazilian State of Bahia

  

  Some 30 cities in the Brazilian state of Bahia are going through an emergency situation following a heavy storm that has affected around 70,000 people and left 3,700 homeless, according to rescue teams.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Towering inferno in Sao Paulo: 24-storey building collapses after huge blaze

  

  A 24-storey building used by squatters in the center of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, collapsed early Tuesday after a blaze that tore through the structure, leaving at least three missing. Survivors described waking in the night to find themselves surrounded by flames and escaping with their children before the tower turned to rubble.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  “Doctors of the World” claims there are 16.000 living in the streets of Buenos Aires

  

  There are over 16.000 homeless living in the streets of Buenos Aires with great difficulties to access public health services according to the ‘Health in the streets’ report from ‘Doctors of the world’ and which was released Friday in the Argentine capital.