Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council’s leader has revealed.

Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.

Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.

It will get down to -17 °C there on Wednesday night.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 days ago

    I pretty much never go to Blackburn (despite it being 20 minutes away!) so I can’t say, but 7 seems extremely low? Do you see many since you’ve been here?

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 days ago

      The Northern city I used to live in grossly under-represented their homeless population. The rough sleepers who would try and sleep in the building I lived in fairly regularly outnumbered the official figures.

  • Echo Dot
    0•2 days ago

    I’m confused as to why the temperature is related to the day of the week.

    • Flying SquidOP
      2•2 days ago

      Because that’s how cold it will get there tomorrow night.