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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Homelessness

‘We had to turn away a man who hadn’t eaten for two days’: Liverpool café serving homeless people for free broken into twice in two weeks

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Food poverty

Four out of five people getting loans from supermarket Iceland to cover food costs are women

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Climate crisis

Would you pay to insulate your home to tackle climate change?

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RENTING

Renters who complain are twice as likely to be evicted by their landlord

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Social housing

England lost more than 200,000 of the most affordable social homes in the last decade

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Rough Sleeping

Rishi Sunak’s anti-social behaviour action plan is ‘dressing old laws up in new clothes’

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Our vendors

Popular Big Issue vendor seriously injured after being run over near his pitch

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Building safety crisis

‘It’s like living through torture’ Tower block residents made homeless over post-Grenfell fire risks

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Our vendors

‘The proudest day of my life’: Former Big Issue vendor opens new furniture shop with Jay Blades

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Veterans

Spring Statement: £20million investment in housing veterans a ‘welcome surprise’

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Homelessness

The number of women sleeping rough could be seven times higher than estimated

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