Marian Gogu, 38, a former cleaner and construction worker from Romania, poses for a photograph near Leicester square in central London on December 27, 2018 where he has spent the past month sleeping rough. - Nearly 600 homeless people in England and Wales died the last year -- a 24 percent rise over the past five years, according to official estimates released last week. (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP)