1,000 homeless deaths last year as millions to help rough sleepers has gone unspent The total figure was up 37% on the 710 UK deaths reported in the 2019 study. Almost 1,000 homeless deaths occurred last year across the UK, a social justice group said earlier this month. Now it has been reported that money that was supposed to help rough sleepers was unspent. The Museum of Homelessness (MoH) said the figure rose by more than a third on the previous year, and called for more to be done to stop such “terrible loss of life”. The museum’s Dying Homeless Project recorded 976 deaths across the four nations in 2020.