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FIG. 1. Article in Times of India (Dated 23-Dec-2010
Figure 1 Article in Times of India dated Dec, 2010
The 2011 census places the base figure of the homeless at 1.7 million or 0.19 per cent of the total population. It also records an increase in the number of homeless households: from 0.447 million families in
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2001 to 0.449 in 2011, suggesting the rise of the nuclear family set
up. Tamil Nadu has the highest number of urban homelessness, 7.3 percentage of homelessness in the country and Chennai houses 3/4th’s of these.
The Chennai Corporation has identified 2,586 homeless families in Chennai district. The total number of homeless persons in the district is 11,116 and now the number is 19564. Almost 80 percentage of the homeless belonged to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes, and 60 percentage were born in the same city where they were found, indicating an intergenerational cycle of poverty.
