The number of homeless people who died across Wales leaped last year, according to research by a social justice group. The Museum of Homelessness has been running the Dying Homeless Project since 2019 and said it uses information from coroners’ enquiries, media coverage, family testimony and freedom of information requests to verify details of each case.
It said the aim is to honour and remember people “who would so often be forgotten”. According to its research, the group said deaths in Wales rose by 27% in 2022 compared to 2021. In 2020, 63 homeless deaths were recorded in Wales, which fell to 60 in 2021 and jumped to 76 in 2022.
The project is calling for Welsh Government action to save lives of the country's most vulnerable people. Co-director Jess Turtle said: “Wales is in the midst of a desperate housing crisis with all forms of homelessness on the rise and perhaps most appallingly significant rates of child homelessness.
