Number Of Homeless Deaths Hits Record High

 An estimated 778 people died while homeless in 2019 in England and Wales, an increase of 7.2 per cent compared to 2018. The ONS stressed it is the highest number of deaths of rough sleepers since the agency began collecting the data in 2013. There has been a 61.4 per cent increase between 2013 and 2019. The majority of identified deaths were in urban areas. London had the highest reported numbers, with 144 estimated deaths of homeless people, 18.5 per cent of the total number. There were more than seven times as many male deaths, compared with females in 2019. Read more on the WLM website.

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