Reza Jagiri, the Social Deputy of the Welfare and Social Participation Organization stressed that carton sleepers [homeless people who sleep in carton boxes on the streets] will be gathered from the city.

“An average of 100 carton sleepers are rounded up from the city everyday”, he said.

“Fifteen to 20 percent of the homeless [in Tehran] are women”, he said adding that most of the homeless were male. (Fars state-run News Agency – Jan. 11, 2012)

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