Claim: There are more homeless UK citizens than the entire population of Iceland.
Fact-check: The estimated number of homeless people in Britain is broadly comparable to the population of Iceland - Full Fact
Verdict: we don't have definitive numbers but these figures are broadly comparable. the charity shelter calculated that an estimated 320,000 people in great britain were homeless at the start of 2018. we don't know how many are uk citizens. the population of iceland at the end of 2018 was around 360,000.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2019-02-22T00:00:00