The co-ordinator for Belfast Homeless Service says it is hard to hang on to hope amid a spate of deaths on the streets.
Liz Rocks has more than 20 years of working to help homeless people and has said the lack of a Stormont Executive is a life or death matter.
"We have to try and hold on to hope - hope's a very small word with a very big meaning but sometimes it's very hard to hang on to that," she told Belfast Live.
