"We have spent most of this year writing about the death of people on our streets [in the UK]. This crisis has simple, practical solutions, and everyone cares about it. Why isn’t it an election priority?"

In the long term, the main reason people die while homeless is that they can't afford a place to live. The Labour Party has made that an election priority. Likewise providing everyone with enough food, and increasing wages and working conditions.

Tory cruelty (including trickle-down policies) makes a small fraction of people homeless, but it causes suffering and even death to a much larger part of the people. I think Labour is wise to prioritize the broader injustice rather than its worst-case symptom, especially since success in these goals will as a natural result save most people from ever being homeless.