Media: number of homeless people rising significantly in Warsaw
There is a homelessness crisis in the Polish capital: the number of people without a roof over their heads has increased significantly recently, TASS reports
According to Gazeta Wyborcza, homeless people occupy all the benches in the city centre and in the subway, sleep on lawns in parks, penetrate into uninhabited country houses on the outskirts of Warsaw.
Moreover, people's queues for free hot meals have become twice as long in the city crisis centres. “Before the outbreak of the pandemic, a maximum of 250 people a day came to us. There are 500 of them now. Suddenly, within three months, the number of free lunches that we distribute has increased by 100 percent,” volunteer Katarzyna Nicewicz, from the Daj Herbate charity organisation, noted. Fights often occur in queues for free food, and a man was even killed in such a queue near the Central Station recently.
As reported by Gazeta Wyborcza, the Warsaw subway has begun to replace ordinary benches with the ones that cannot be used for sleeping because of a huge number of homeless people.
