Re: Cause of death
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-04-23/dying-homeless
Bureau of Investigative Journalism has a long list of individual cases here, with links to the sources. Causes of death include: overdoses, organ failure, pneumonia, trauma. At a glance, most of them seem to die in their sleep.
//Kromo, as a former police officer I used to come across people sleeping out and I can assure you that most of them when offered some accommodation refused it//
Sure, but there has been a very large short-term increase both in the numbers of rough sleepers and in the numbers of dying rough sleepers. Plus the nature of who dies appears to be changing: the dead are far more likely to be mentally ill now than they were 8 years ago. Surely if it's down to short-term changes then that means a fair chunk of these deaths must have been preventable?