UK's Homelessness Crisis Is Getting Worse

Fiona Cooley, the director of the "Homeless Link" charity, reports that the average age of homeless Britons upon death is 40. On the street, you may accost an individual who seems to be fairly youthful but is fact rather frail and vulnerable." Heriot-Watt University, a public research institution based in Edinburgh, also sternly warned that if the government doesn't take urgent actions, 300,000 British families will become homeless within the next year, at the same time that 230,000 families are currently homeless in England, Scotland, and Wales. Since 2012, the number of homeless individuals has climbed threefold, while the number of persons living in boarding houses has surged by about 25,000 over the preceding decade. The Guardian has also raised concern that the death rate among homeless individuals will climb dramatically in the near future.