Cities are designed for a mythical average person – super-mobile, without dependants or disabilities but with a cast-iron bladder.
Other trends remain steady: Poles account for seven in ten of the immigrants, half of this year's arrivals are employed in administration or hospitality, and the newcomers are almost entirely young and arrive without dependants.
What an insult to God and the teachings of Christ! Louise McArdle North Lanarkshire As your article "Homeless families at highest number since financial crisis began" (22 December) rightly points out, the official homelessness figures account for the numbers of people who are "statutorily homeless" and, by definition, excludes the majority of the single homeless – adults without dependants.
The BAH is used to pay for rent, utility bills, and insurance; it can be as much as $40,320 p.a. (for a private with dependants stationed in New York City) and as little as $7,344 p.a. (for a private without dependants stationed in Klamath Falls, Oregon).
However, 90% of those who were single without dependants were in income poverty.
Those who were married without dependants were used as the reference group.
Logistic regression models were used to compare the odds of being in income poverty for those in different family types married with dependants, married without dependants, single with dependants, single without dependants.
Most CEE migrants arriving in the UK are young, single and without dependants, factors suggesting that they are likely, or wanting, to be sexually active.
This was also the second largest group in income poverty (by family type), behind those who were part of a married couple without dependants (table 2).
When limited to those not in the labour force due to ill health, a similar proportion of people who were married without dependants, married with dependants or single with dependants were in income poverty (62%, 62% or 59%, respectively).
