According to the latest survey by Peterborough City Council’s Housing Options team only three homeless people were counted.
For a city that is supposed to have a population of over 160,000 I can’t help but find the survey’s findings a little hard to swallow.
The informal headcount was carried out by visiting “known hotspots” on a single night (September 11th) I’m not sure if that really qualifies as anything more than guesswork.
Maybe their definition of a homeless person is a little different to mine? On a typical night out in town you can easily count half a dozen people begging – sitting by the Hereward Cross Tesco cashpoints, on the Queensgate footbridge to the railway station and around the Market.
I wonder how Peterborough ranks against other similar sized cities and towns.
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