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Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council's leader has revealed.

Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.

Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.

It will get down to -17 °C there on Wednesday night.

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I pretty much never go to Blackburn (despite it being 20 minutes away!) so I can't say, but 7 seems extremely low? Do you see many since you've been here?

[–] davesmith@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Northern city I used to live in grossly under-represented their homeless population. The rough sleepers who would try and sleep in the building I lived in fairly regularly outnumbered the official figures.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I've seen one.