What would be the proper way to say this?

Cut the NUMBER of home less people by/in half.

"Cut homelessness in half" would work fine. It's not as formal as some alternatives, but the meaning is clear.

"Cut the number of homeless people in half" is possible

Cut homelessness in half works. Cut the number of homeless people in half works.

Actually, that would double their number

But why do you think this is said in an improper way?

It’s the Tories. They meant what they said. /s

We plan to halve the number of homeless

Reduce the percentage of unhomed people by half

Reduce homelessness by half

If you want to use "cut," you can say "cut the homeless population in half"

It means the same, its more of a joke on the part of the person not the advertisers, because theyre taking it too literally

"[...] cut the population of homeless people in half."

It's a spoof ad by an artist called FokaWolf. It's meant to read in an ambiguous way like they are going to cut homeless people in half. https://counteract.co/news/birmingham-artist-foka-wolf-goes-viral-fake-tory-homelessness-ad/

We plan to halve homelessness by 2025.

cut in half the number of homeless people

"Halve the rate of homelessness" is the actual proper way to say it. "Cut homelessness in half" has its own problems.

Halve the number of homeless people by 2025.

“We plan to cut the number of homeless people in half by 2025.”

Cut the number of homeless people in half, percentage works too

Reduce homelessness by fifty percent.

Maybe “We plan to halve homelessness by 2025”?

We will bisect all the homeless people by 2025.

Rate of homelessness in half

"We plan to cut the number of homeless people in half by 2025" would be appropriate. As they said it, it sounds like they are going on a killing spree.

As a member of Britain, I can confirm we cut homeless people in half. \[obviously sarcasm, don't take this literally..\]

"We plan to cut homelessness in half by 2025" would be the best rephrasing.

we plan on reducing poverty by half by the end of 2025? That's what I could come up with. Now lets see how the natives have done it.

"We will work to reduce the homeless population by half"


I wouldnt put it past them

Just so you know, it was intentionally worded that way as satire

‘We plan to reduce the homeless population by half’ would be less violent sounding lol but the original statement isn’t incorrect I don’t think

"We plan to cut homelessness in half by 2025". Short, and avoids confusion lol.

Just a note, it’s a fake ad.

Maybe homelessNESS?

we want to reduce homelessness by 50%

we plan to cut homelessness by 50% by 2025. lol. lying tories.

Halve the number of homeless people

This is the proper way cut them in half, preferably along the vertical axis.

Homelessness instead of homeless people themselves

We plan to reduce the number of homeless people to half as much as it currently is.

"Reduce"

i would say “lower the rate of homelessness by 50%” i think

Cut out half of the homeless population...well I tried.

“Dewey, I’m cut in half pretty bad.”

cut the number of homeless people in half, reduce the amount of homeless people by 50%, half the number of those without homes

The closest re-wording I can think of is "We plan to reduce the number of homeless people by half."

we plan to cut the number of homeless people in half, or we plan to cut the rate of homelessness in half, or you could say either of those and say “halve” instead of “cut in half”

We plan to reduce the amount of homeless people in half by 2025

We plan to house half of the homeless population by 2025

This was an ad by the Tories. I’m not sure there is an error in their wording.

“Take away the homelessness in people in 2025.” this seems better