I was innocently looking up some statistics related to homelessness for something entirely unrelated to gender issues and Google directed me to Crisis, a leading UK charity for homelessness. Now I found statistics taking account of gender in this phenomenon incredibly hard to find for some mysterious reason, but this charity's own numbers are as follows:

In 2011 the housing charity Crisis found that 84% of the hidden homeless were male. And the latest CHAIN figures suggest that 9 out of 10 people sleeping rough are male.

Their own numbers, and that page admits that women are in the overwhelming minority on this issue; and yet their resources are specifically being directed towards helping women. The suffering of homeless women is unique you see, so we need to focus on them.

So efforts to combat a social problem are being redivided and reallocated to help a group of people least affected by the problem, presumably at the expense of those most affected, entirely on the basis of their gender.

I could find no section of their website discussing the homelessness phenominon as a disproportionately male problem, nor any theories or proposed solutions to address it as such. Nor could I find any specific efforts they were making to address the causes behind this disparity.

Why are charities playing favouritism at all? It really is a sorry state of affairs. We have to point this out and look like a bunch of assholes for complaining about a noble pursuit, but for christ sake even charities tackling an issue this heavily one sided are primarily concerned about helping women. Yes they should be helping the women, but they shouldn't be getting special attention just because they're women - especially not when men are suffering a hell of a lot more.

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