Housing

Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud: ‘We need to place quality at the centre of our lives. Not quantity’
Housing

Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud: ‘We need to place quality at the centre of our lives. Not quantity’

Kevin McCloud is on a personal quest to raise people’s expectations around housing

Married at First Sight UK star Davide reveals homelessness past: ‘It made me who I am today’
Homelessness

Married at First Sight UK star Davide reveals homelessness past: ‘It made me who I am today’

Davide Anica slept rough on streets of Paris as a teenager. Now the Married at First Sight UK reality TV star is teaming up with youth homelessness charity EveryYouth

When it comes to Britain’s housing, we need to value the homes we have as much as the ones we build
Housing

When it comes to Britain’s housing, we need to value the homes we have as much as the ones we build

The director of policy at the Chartered Institute of Housing on the way we fix the housing crisis

Building for the future: Stonewater’s vision for greener, smarter homes
Advertorial

Building for the future: Stonewater’s vision for greener, smarter homes

Frozen housing benefit pushes renters into homelessness. Will Labour finally listen and thaw it?
Renting

Frozen housing benefit pushes renters into homelessness. Will Labour finally listen and thaw it?

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Inside the Big Issue: From grotty to grotto
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: From grotty to grotto

There’s much we can learn from Ukraine in the fight against homelessness
Nick Hardwick

There’s much we can learn from Ukraine in the fight against homelessness

Keir Starmer promises to ‘put an end to unsafe housing’ in exclusive article for Big Issue
Housing

Keir Starmer promises to ‘put an end to unsafe housing’ in exclusive article for Big Issue

Benefit cap puts single mothers like me at risk of homelessness and destitution
Clare Bowen

Benefit cap puts single mothers like me at risk of homelessness and destitution

‘There are good people in the world’: The impact of supported lodgings on young people without family
Supported lodgings

‘There are good people in the world’: The impact of supported lodgings on young people without family

People are finally talking about asylum hotels – so why stop now?
Layla Hussain

People are finally talking about asylum hotels – so why stop now?

Labour confirms millions in funding to stop 1,000-plus veterans becoming homeless
Veterans

Labour confirms millions in funding to stop 1,000-plus veterans becoming homeless

Thousands of pensioners evicted from care homes and put at risk of homelessness: ‘It’s so cruel’
Care homes

Thousands of pensioners evicted from care homes and put at risk of homelessness: ‘It’s so cruel’

3 things Labour must do right now to help 300,000 homeless households in England
Homelessness

3 things Labour must do right now to help 300,000 homeless households in England

Prince William and Gordon Brown join forces to tackle homelessness: ‘Dignity can be restored’
Homelessness

Prince William and Gordon Brown join forces to tackle homelessness: ‘Dignity can be restored’

Meet the veterans finding community and purpose on Britain’s canals: ‘I don’t merely exist anymore’
Veterans

Meet the veterans finding community and purpose on Britain’s canals: ‘I don’t merely exist anymore’

‘A moral imperative’: Starmer faces pressure to confirm cash to stop veteran homelessness
Veterans

‘A moral imperative’: Starmer faces pressure to confirm cash to stop veteran homelessness

Mayors to get greater powers to build social homes in their regions: ‘Go big, go bold, go build’
Social housing

Mayors to get greater powers to build social homes in their regions: ‘Go big, go bold, go build’

Here’s how Rachel Reeves can help end the ‘moral stain’ of homelessness in the autumn budget
Matt Downie

Here’s how Rachel Reeves can help end the ‘moral stain’ of homelessness in the autumn budget

Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot
Financial inclusion

Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot

Starmer slams false claim veterans are being evicted to house asylum seekers: ‘Conspiracy nonsense’
Exclusive

Starmer slams false claim veterans are being evicted to house asylum seekers: ‘Conspiracy nonsense’

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Big Issue vendor to donate magazine earnings to ‘give back’ to forces charities for Remembrance Day
Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor to donate magazine earnings to ‘give back’ to forces charities for Remembrance Day

The stereotype is that homelessness comes from bad choices – but it could happen to anyone
Gabrielle Pickard Whitehead

The stereotype is that homelessness comes from bad choices – but it could happen to anyone

This is what it’s like to fall into hidden homelessness: ‘I felt like a burden’
Homelessness

This is what it’s like to fall into hidden homelessness: ‘I felt like a burden’

Housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake – and the Home Office knows it
Julia Savage

Housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake – and the Home Office knows it