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A damning new report suggests that Sweden's integration policies are failing migrants, who now account for almost 50 percent of the country's rising homeless population.
The average homeless person costs the Swedish state up to SEK 600,000 ($63,000) per year
according to housing expert Linda Jonsson, who warned of an impending "economic and social crisis."
"It is mainly about new arrivals who have not been able to establish themselves and lack sufficient income," says Jonsson.
Jonsson predicted that some 2,700 migrants are likely to become homeless next year in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city.
According to a recent report by the construction company
Veidekke, Sweden's total homeless population hovers around the 33,000 figure, which includes those in shelters, various forms of emergency accommodation as well as those sleeping rough on the streets and in public parks.
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