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human
That table also doesn't take account of the difference between rough sleepers (people with no home at all) and people in temporary accommodations, so the figures are not really comparable. The uk figure is largely the latter (most people finding themselves homeless are entitled to be housed by their local council, but if this is temporary/a hotel etc, they still count as homeless in uk figures, but they have a roof over their head). Rough sleepers in the uk are generally either those suffering mental health or drug addiction issues  or people not originally from the uk who are not entitled to uk benefits. The majority of the us figure on the otherhand are actual homeless without decent shelter
gpt
It's the same for the Netherlands. We have special shelters for homeless people, which means that in practicality no one has to sleep in the streets. And they also have stuff like showers and (cheap) washing machines.

They also don't just hang around begging for example, or build tents like you see with homeless camps in cities like Los Angeles.