According to Klimaka, a Greek non-governmental organization, the number of homeless people has soared by 25 percent since 2009, with people from all social classes ending up without a roof over their heads.
While the drug addicts and mentally challenged people had comprise the majority of the Greek homeless in the past, now a new generation of jobless people with middle or higher educational backgrounds have ended up living on the streets, euronews reported.
In May, the unemployment rate hit a record 16.5 percent, and Greek NGO's foresee a sharper rise in the number of the homeless.
Since May 2010, Greece's economic crisis has caused sweeping turmoil across the country, forcing the government of former Prime Minister George Papandreou to resign.
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