BASED on data gathered by the Federal Territory Department, there are 1,387 homeless people in Kuala Lumpur and most are in the 22 to 45 age group.
Federal Territory Welfare Department director Noormah Abd Rauf said poverty, old age, drug addiction, abandonment, mental illness, disability, family woes and depression were among the reasons attributed to the homeless problem.
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