Liam Geraghty, Author at Big Issue

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Liam Geraghty

Liam has written for The Big Issue since 2017, originally starting out as a Junior Writer/Sub-Editor before working up the ranks to become Senior Reporter in 2019 and Deputy Digital Editor (News) in 2023. That role sees him take charge of news and investigations relating to housing, homelessness and social issues. He also helps Big Issue vendors tell their story.

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Photography

Here’s a unique side of London captured through the lens of homeless photographers

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HOUSING

Labour won’t hit 1.5 million home target without putting up serious cash to get Britain building

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Furniture poverty

Gail Porter on going from TV star to homeless and the power of having your own washing machine

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Housing crisis

London housing crisis ‘breaking borough budgets’ as councils warn of £700m funding shortfall

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RENTING

Four ways Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill differs from the Tories’ doomed Renters Reform Bill

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Rough sleeping

Andy Burnham wants to give homes to Manchester’s rough sleepers in ‘sea change for housing’

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Prisons

Everything Labour must do to fix broken prison system as early release scheme gets underway

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Renting

Renters’ Rights Bill: Labour has ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ to fix the renting crisis

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Homelessness

California’s governor wants to use AI to solve homelessness – but it’s backfired, badly

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Grenfell Tower

Progress ‘far too slow’ on post-Grenfell cladding crisis with thousands still living in fire-trap homes

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