Campaigners demand action after figures show almost 1,000 homeless people died last year

ALMOST 1,000 homeless people in England and Wales died last year, official figures revealed today, prompting campaigners to decry a “national failure.”

An estimated 974 deaths of people experiencing homelessness were registered in the two nations in 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

The number was almost exactly the same as the 978 estimated deaths registered in 2024 and up 77 per cent on 2013 when this ONS time series began.