Homeless people in Russia

2021: The number of homeless people in Russia has decreased 6 times in 10 years

By the end of 2022 Russia , there were 11,285 homeless people, which is almost 6 times less than in 2010 (64,077). This is evidenced by the data Rosstat released in January 2023.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to the department's materials, most of the homeless, namely 10,696 people, lived in cities by the end of 2022, 589 in rural areas. At the same time, in 2010, 59,790 homeless people were rewritten in cities and 4287 in rural areas. According to the 2002 census, there were 142,559 homeless people in Russia, of which 134,409 lived in cities, 8150 in rural areas.

The methodological explanations of Rosstat say that persons who did not have a permanent place of residence (for example, homeless people) corresponded where the census found them.

The number of homeless decreased 6 times

The All-Russian population census does not take into account people in shelters or those who occupy empty houses in rural areas, said Galina Sheverdova, deputy head of the department of population statistics and health.

According to Rosstat, 1.022 million people lived in institutions where people live at the expense of the state or charitable organizations in 2021. For comparison, in 2010, 1.8 million people lived in such organizations.

Most of those left homeless above their heads were recorded in Moscow. By the end of 2021, 6,637 people were finding temporary refuge in the capital.

In second place in these statistics is Omsk (441), and on the third line is the Irkutsk region (367). The top ten also included the Komi Republic (297), Samara (255), Tyumen (246) and Kemerovo (246) regions.

According to Daria Baibakova, director of the Nochlezhka charity in Moscow, according to the census results, it is impossible to conclude about the total number of homeless people in Russia, since the methodology itself does not allow census takers to reach most people who do not have a permanent residence: some are difficult to find in non-residential and abandoned premises or on the street. In addition, Baibakova noted, many homeless people may not outwardly differ from those with a house and may be unidentified.^[1]

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