Government urged to take action on homelessness BelfastTelegraph.co.uk The Government has been urged to take action on homelessness after new figures revealed that two homeless people died in England and Wales every day last year. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/government-urged-to-take-action-on-homelessness-38552216.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/article38552212.ece/e08e3/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_45e9fce3-efd8-4aee-9522-86f069521818_1 Email The Government has been urged to take action on homelessness after new figures revealed that two homeless people died in England and Wales every day last year. Deaths of homeless people rose by 22% to 726 in 2018 – the largest rise since records began in 2013, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. And drug-related homeless deaths almost doubled, with two in five being related to drug poisoning – an increase of 55% on 2017. The majority of the deaths in 2018 were men – an estimated 641 deaths – with an average age of 45 for men and 43 for women. The figures led to calls for action from the Prime Minister. Asking an urgent question on homeless deaths in the Commons on Tuesday, shadow housing secretary John Healey said: “This shames us all in a nation as decent and well-off as Britain today. “Every one in shop doorway, in bedsit, on park bench, has been known and loved… Read full this story
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