'Deaths of despair': Fr Peter McVerry says deaths of homeless people a public health crisis

Fr Peter McVerry said that we are dealing with a public health crisis that will only escalate when tenancy protections have been removed.Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Homeless campaigner Fr Peter McVerry has said the recent surge in the number of deaths of people who were homeless or in emergency is a public health crisis.

Ten people died in the month of July - almost a third of the number who died in all of 2019.