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.
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.