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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Women are asking to stay in prison beyond their sentence because they don’t have a home to go to

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Tory MP claims people use food banks because they can’t cook or budget properly

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Michael Gove promises Renters’ Reform Bill will deliver ‘new deal for renters’

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Campaigners welcome social housing bill but warn there’s no quick fix for Britain’s horror homes

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Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis donates land for social housing

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Cost of living crisis

A house fire was caused by a man ‘burning timber to save on energy bills’

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Affordable housing

Almost 20,000 affordable homes have been lost by converting office blocks into housing

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Soaring cost of construction materials could impact home building

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Police forced to scrap order that banned a homeless man from carrying a cup

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‘Significant concerns’ over Ukraine refugees becoming homeless in UK

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Community activism

These people are ‘levelling up’ their area by renovating derelict homes and renting them out on the cheap

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Right to Buy: Boris Johnson’s plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’

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