Hundreds of homeless people registered in downtown Budapest in a single night
Fully 461 homeless people were recorded in public areas in the central parts of Budapest on Friday evening, according to a homeless charity.
Volunteers carrying out the survey between 8 p.m. and midnight on Oct 11 found that 133 homeless people were lying down, while 328 were “sitting, walking or wandering,” Péter Győri, the head of the Menhely Foundation‘s board of trustees, said at a press conference on Monday. Volunteers also discovered 30 empty sleeping spots, he added.
Fully 78 percent of homeless people were male, mostly aged between 30 and 49.
The survey found that most of the homeless used indoor shelters. Fifty-eight percent of those spending the night out in the streets were on their own, while “a surprisingly high” proportion, 22 percent, formed groups, and 20 percent were couples, he said.
The count did not include homeless registered in the care system, those sleeping in hostels or shelters.
Péter Breitner, deputy director of the Budapest Methodological Centre of Social Policy and Its Institutions (BMSZKI), the city’s largest homeless service provider, said their organisation maintained daily contact with some 3,000 homeless people who made use various types of indoor shelter.
He noted that a high ratio of the homeless, 30 percent, had psychiatric issues, adding that BMSZKI operated three types of shelter tailored to their needs. “We opened a house for those with addiction problems where alcohol is available,” Breitner said.
Ákos Surányi, the city council’s homeless strategy coordinator, said the survey was carried out with help of 120 volunteers who covered 48 zones on foot, focusing on subways, railway stations, public transport vehicles and the Népliget international bus station.
Nóra Teller, the head of research of Városkutatás, said the project was carried out under a multiphase EU programme covering 15 cities in ten European countries.
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Poverty in Hungary – INCREASES.
3.1 million Hungarians factually recorded as living in POVERTY.
Hungary – in the 15 years of the “Autocratic” Governance of the Victor Mihaly. Orban – Fidesz Government continues monthly, that deaths of Hungarians is the WINNER over “new” little one’s being born.
This trend REMAINS.
Hungary – we have no population GROWTH.
Hungary – we have a declining population.
Hungary – we are an “Ageing” Population.
In the “ageing” process of a society, this adds massive strain to Medical Services – Public and “other” – Facilities for the Age, that constantly needs INVESTMENT resources to care for the aged.
Hungary – we know the humongous FAILINGS of this Orban led – Fidesz Government there under investment into the need’s of Medical Public Services – from Hospitals down right through under Public / Community Health Services, to care for the aged, those from “all stations in life” – who need professional medical attention and services.
Hungary – we have been FAILED and like Education, through lack of – the inability as a Government to PRIORITIZE its expenditure, Medical / Community and Public Health Services will DECLINE.
It comes back under Social Inequality in Hungary, that the BLATANT decision making out of the Orban – Fidesz Government to a large degree has been “One Dimensional.”
Orban – Fidesz Government – what’s in DECISION making / Policy making for us – FIRST.
Then secondly, the “scraps” – the left-overs for the citizens.
Orban – the Fidesz Government – the EVIDENCE of there SELFISHNESS as a Government is “without question.”
The Rich over 15 years under Orban – the Fidesz Government and it’s members/supporters have become RICHER,
and the POOR have grown in numbers and become POORER.
Hungarians – across near all aspects of life in Hungary, and it grows daily – we have been used and abused, insulted, our “brand proud name as a country” humiliated, feed propaganda “saturated” in lies, been betrayed, and what have we been DELIVERED – Received as a country as citizens ???
Orban – his Fidesz Government – have bought us to a place of a cataclysmic capitulation.
It WORSEN’s.