Death
Toll within the Homeless Community
Homelessness
is not just about individuals not having a home. These individuals are exposed to the outside environments
where they are affected directly by extreme weather, violence, drugs, unsanitary
conditions, depression, and so much more.
The homeless population stays struggling to survive every day physically
and mentally.
According
to a report made in 2020, 113 homeless individuals in Multnomah County
alone have died in 2019 since 2012.
Death in the homeless population has doubled from 47 deaths in 2011 to
113 recorded in 2019. While there has
been no direct cause found to this drastic increase, it is suggested that the incline
is due to increasing rent prices causing an increase in the homeless population.
From
the same report made in 2020, drugs and alcohol made up approximately half of
the death toll of the homeless in 2019.
A third of this population died from natural causes such as chronic
diseases or alcohol and drug abuse. Fifteen
deaths were recorded to be by suicides, and six deaths were recorded to be due
to homicides. Ten deaths were by “traumatic
accidents”. Click here for more information.
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