Homelessness

Inside the Big Issue: The shape of protest in 2025
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The shape of protest in 2025

The housing crisis isn’t a competition between helping ‘our own’ and supporting others
Nosheen Malik

The housing crisis isn’t a competition between helping ‘our own’ and supporting others

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn’t go far enough, campaigners say
Refugees

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn’t go far enough, campaigners say

Black and minority households ‘forced to cut their hair and hide their accents’ to get social housing
Racism

Black and minority households ‘forced to cut their hair and hide their accents’ to get social housing

This rule change is helping care leavers and domestic abuse survivors to get social homes
Social housing

This rule change is helping care leavers and domestic abuse survivors to get social homes

Homeless young people slapped with £1,800 carpet bill after finally being housed
Homelessness

Homeless young people slapped with £1,800 carpet bill after finally being housed

This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets
Homelessness

This innovative new project helps get both domestic abuse victims and perpetrators off the streets

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says
Rough sleeping

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says

Prince William’s bid to end homelessness in ‘delivery mode’ as it hits second anniversary
Homelessness

Prince William’s bid to end homelessness in ‘delivery mode’ as it hits second anniversary

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless
Disability benefits

More than half of PIP claimants say Labour’s benefit cuts could make them homeless

Benefit cuts are not a ‘pathway to work’ – they risk making people homeless
Emma Haddad

Benefit cuts are not a ‘pathway to work’ – they risk making people homeless

If we want to prevent modern slavery, we must start with preventing homelessness
Mick Clarke and Eleanor Lyons

If we want to prevent modern slavery, we must start with preventing homelessness

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?
Matt Downie

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’

‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing
Art

‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing

Scrapping the Vagrancy Act won’t end the criminalisation of rough sleeping
Benjamin Archer

Scrapping the Vagrancy Act won’t end the criminalisation of rough sleeping

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Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives
Drugs

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: ‘People don’t know their rights’
Law

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: ‘People don’t know their rights’

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of ‘cruel’ 200-year law
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of ‘cruel’ 200-year law

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around
Homelessness

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around