https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/rough-sleeping
Rough sleeping rises at appalling rate, charity says, as figures show 16% rise
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/rough-sleeping
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Rough sleeping rises at appalling rate, charity says, as figures show 16% rise
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/rough-sleeping
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2017-01-25T11:39:56.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-01-31T10:52:23.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:15.738Z (12 months ago)
- Topics: councils, homelessness, housing
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38719087
- Size: 101 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Rough sleeping rises at appalling rate, charity says, as figures show 16% rise
In January 2017 we [reported on new data showing that more than 4,000 people a night had been sleeping rough on England's streets](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38719087), a 16% increase on the last year.
## Data
* Department for Communities and Local Government: Homelessness statistics - [Rough sleeping in England: autumn 2016](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2016)
## Visualisation
* Multiple bar chart: Areas with the most rough sleepers
* Infographic: Sleeping on the streets
* Line chart: Rise in rough sleeping across England
## Related repositories
We [reported on similar figures a year later, in January 2018](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42817123). [The repo for that story can be found here](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/rough-sleeping-2017). You can [find all our repos tagged 'homelessness' here](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ahomelessness+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit+fork%3Atrue)