The number of homeless people in Singapore fell slightly in 2021 despite the Covid-19 pandemic leading to homelessness spiking in many countries as unemployment and poverty rose.

The second nationwide street count of the homeless here found about 1,000 people last year - 7% fewer than the first such count in 2019.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia Journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke with Dr Ng Kok Hoe, a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy to find out more about the findings.