What happened on 24th April 2023 - with your comments
On Monday, the Euronews calculated that more than 4000 people have died while homeless in the last four years in the UK, according to new figures, which means a death every 6.5 hours in 2022 . Some readers blamed Tory for that. "For the Tories that a homeless death every 6.5 hours isn’t quick enough." "Councils have a duty to house them." Others started calculating, too. "There is something not right with these numbers. According to Shelter, there are 271,000 homeless people in the UK. A death every 6.5 hours is 1349 homeless deaths per year, or 5 out of every thousand homeless people per year. There were 667,479 deaths registered in the UK in 2021 with a population of 67 million. That's ten out of every thousand people in the UK die every year. The homeless have half the death rate of the general population; it's hard to see this as a "crisis". "I'm guessing you'll find that the average life expectancy of homeless peop...