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Poverty not only cause of SA’s homeless pandemic

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Homelessness cannot be separated from poverty, and the government needs to look deeper into the socio-economic pull-and-push factors that constantly drive the numbers up, says report.

As the winter progresses and the number of people using pavements as places of refuge every night increases, so do efforts to tackle the issue need to be increased.

Last year, statistics indicated that almost 56

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