A record number of homeless people died last year, in the biggest increase in deaths since reporting began, amid warnings fatalities are likely to be even higher in 2019. They are heartbreaking.”Those collecting data for the Museum of Homelessness said the number of deaths for 2019 is likely to be even higher. Gill, who runs the Neighbourhood Welfare homeless hub, said the future for homeless people in the area was “incredibly bleak”. Two in five deaths of homeless people were related to drug poisoning in 2018 (294 estimated deaths), and the number of deaths from this has increased by 55% since 2017. London and the north-west had the highest numbers of deaths in 2018, with 148 (20% of the total number) and 103 (14% of the total number) estimated deaths of homeless people respectively.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2019 10:22 UTC