https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/homeless-deaths-regional
Homeless deaths nine times higher in deprived areas
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/homeless-deaths-regional
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Homeless deaths nine times higher in deprived areas
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/homeless-deaths-regional
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2019-02-27T14:33:57.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-02-27T14:41:51.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:40:25.109Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: homelessness, ons
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47357492
- Size: 131 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Homeless deaths nine times higher in deprived areas
In February 2019 we [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47357492) on data which showed that deaths of homeless people were nine times higher in deprived areas of England than in the least disadvantaged areas.
## Get the data
* ONS: [Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales: 2013 to 2017 Local Authority level data](https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/deathsofhomelesspeopleinenglandandwales2013to2017localauthorityleveldata)
* [XLS file cached here](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/homeless-deaths-regional/blob/master/deathsofhomelesspeoplereferencetables.xlsx)
## Quotes and interviews
* Polly Neate, chief executive, Shelter
* Jon Sparkes, chief executive, Crisis
* Ben Humberstone, head of health analysis, Office of National Statistics (ONS)
* Sayyed Osman, director of adults and prevention, Blackburn with Darwen Council
* James Brokenshire, Communities Secretary
## Visualisation
* Bar chart: Deaths of homeless people in 2017, 10 authorities with the highest rates
## Related repos
We [reported on the first release of ONS data on the deaths of homeless people in December 2018](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/homeless-deaths).
You can [find repos for all of our stories tagged 'homelessness' here](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ahomelessness+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit&type=Repositories)