- More than one billion people worldwide live in inadequate housing, with more than 100 million people living in conditions classified as homeless. (office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- Six hundred forty million children in developing countries live without adequate housing.(UNICEF)
- There are currently 21 million internally displaced persons, in addition to 12 million refugees and asylum seekers,needing temporary shelter.(Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Boarders)
- Hurricane Katrina left an estimated 1.5 million Americans homeless in the Gulf Coast region.(National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty)
- In the United States, approximately 3.5 million people experience homelessness each year. (Urban Institute)
Data collected from "Design for the other 90%" Smithsonian, Cooper-Herwitt, National Design Museum, may 2007. photo credit "defence.lk"
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