Deaths Among Homeless

[Kromovaracun]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/number-of-homeless-people-dying-more-than-doubles-in-five-years-figures-show-a8298981.html

According to a Freedom of Information Request filed by the Guardian (and supported by research from Crisis), the number of homeless people dying in the UK has doubled in the last 5 years.

Why do you think this has happened? Do you think anything should be done or should we just ignore it?

[Baldric]

I used to help a friend of mine out who had a factory next to a Homeless Shelter.
If we went in in the early hours of the morning, most of the Homeless would be sleeping in the Doorways and recesses on bits of cardboard because they didn't like sleeping in a proper bed, they would go in for a meal then decamp to our Site to sleep, never a problem.
Not saying they're all like that but . . . . . . .

[Jackdaw33]

The fact that someone is selling The Big Issue does not necessarily mean that he is homeless.

[ummmm]

True, Jack, my dad befriended some big issue sellers (sold outside the pub he drank in) and they had somewhere to live but it was one of those places you had to leave in the morning and could come back until after a certain time. Selling the Big Issue was their job as otherwise they'd have no hope of employment.

[Jackdaw33]

Outside the shopping mall in my town is a young Muslim woman who sells the Big Issue. She certainly does not appear to be homeless.

[dunnitall]

Surely we should be questioning WHY there are so any 'homeless' people. Years ago we had hardly any..they were know as tramps...a different category IMO. Youngsters don't need to leave their home environment...whenever heard of it.

People have more choice, most choose their path so why feel sorry for them? It shouldn't be to do with funding...it should be down to family cohesion, as in the 'old days'....people looked after one another. Now it seems it's a case of I'm going cos I don't like you.

You used to get on with it and deal with it. Now it seems they choose to walk away and they do.

[Kromovaracun]

//Not saying they're all like that but . . . . . .//

But what? Maybe some of them want to die?

If there's even one homeless foreign person among the dead, they will have "had an impact", Talbot. I'm not sure what we're supposed to infer from that, though.

[dunnitall]

Sorry typo errors... Predictive text takes over and I didn't check it....SOZ

[Baldric]

Spath, JD did not say she was Foreign.

[Jackdaw33]

I cannot understand ex-service people being homeless. It must be either through illness or choice.

[dunnitall]

JD same here...but then I cannot understand the majority of those who are homeless being so. It shouldn't happen but again it's choice....you do or you don't!

[nailit]

Ive been homeless and slept on car parks, believe me it wasn't fun and it wasn't through choice.

[nailit]

I wasnt a junkie either

[andres]

With the numbers of homeless people rising over the last few years to almost 200,000 it isn't surprising that the numbers of deaths have also increased .

[david small]

I have slept rough twice once in winter and once in spring. It ain’t no fun. Doing it regularly would see me off.

[pastafreak]

I know our homeless numbers have gone up in recent months. Probably by about 20% or so. We have a small group of eastern Europeans...their number has been stable for months. That is until one died in a doorway about 5 weeks ago. Lovely older gentleman...it was a thrombosis or something similar I believe. Deaths are most often related to substance abuse...not necessarily ODs, but the physical toll on the body of long term use.
Other than that, most of the newer clients are young, male and definitely British. Some are very young. We get occasional Africans, but it's very rare.

[pastafreak]

Oh...and anyone who says " youngsters don't need to leave their home environment " is wrong...you wouldn't want to know what some have been through.