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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Art

Stunning portrait of Big Issue vendor ‘shows the power of art’ to tackle homelessness

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Housing

Protect tenants from living in mould, damp and ‘third-world poverty conditions’, government told

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Homelessness

Met Police apologises after ‘inhumane’ destruction of homeless people’s tents near Camden hospital

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Cost of living crisis

UK inflation unexpectedly rising to 4% in December spells ‘bad news for families’

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Homelessness

Homelessness set to soar by a third in Scotland in two years – but it ‘doesn’t need to be this way’

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Housing

Outrage after one-year-old baby hospitalised six times due to damp and mould-ridden rental home

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homelessness

Anger over plan to axe data on people who die while homeless: ‘Now is not the time’

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Economy

UK at risk of ‘technical recession’ despite GDP growth in November: ‘This isn’t a thriving economy’

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World Habitat Awards

Rebuilding Ukraine and fighting forced evictions: These projects will give you hope in 2024

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Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor Will Payne hangs up his tabard for new job as a street cleaner: ‘I love it’

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Politics

Will Trump win? Are the Tories finished? The man behind Jonathan Pie predicts politics in 2024

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Our vendors