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Fat Macy’s: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs
Employment

Fat Macy’s: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs

Social enterprise Fat Macy’s offers kitchen and hospitality training before helping them with job hunting and securing housing

How will the government end rough sleeping? We asked the homelessness minister
Homelessness

How will the government end rough sleeping? We asked the homelessness minister

Florence Eshalomi, the minister of state for homelessness, democracy, communities and faith, tries her hand at latte art before sitting down with the Big Issue to discuss the government’s plans to offer all rough sleepers a route off the street by Christmas

Is it fair to ask a homeless person to give up their pet to get a home? Half of Brits say no
Housing

Is it fair to ask a homeless person to give up their pet to get a home? Half of Brits say no

The prime minister’s promise of a route off the street for all rough sleepers by Christmas will be undermined by the fact only one in 10 hostels are pet-friendly, a Big Issue survey finds

If we are serious about ending rough sleeping, we must be honest about what needs to be done
Housing

If we are serious about ending rough sleeping, we must be honest about what needs to be done

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: ‘It took its toll’
Housing

Meet the homeless people living in hotel rooms miles from their home towns: ‘It took its toll’

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More than 1,700 people died while homeless in 2025. It’s a ‘national scandal’
Homelessness

More than 1,700 people died while homeless in 2025. It’s a ‘national scandal’

Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: ‘My dog is like a son to me’
Homelessness

Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: ‘My dog is like a son to me’

Council spending on housing homeless families in England at almost £3bn a year: ‘It’s crippling’
Housing

Council spending on housing homeless families in England at almost £3bn a year: ‘It’s crippling’

Are Andy Burnham’s affordable homes plans a ‘council housing revolution’ or a ‘massive backtrack’?
Housing

Are Andy Burnham’s affordable homes plans a ‘council housing revolution’ or a ‘massive backtrack’?

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: ‘Bills are rising but so are we’
Protest

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: ‘Bills are rising but so are we’

‘Mum’s no longer with us. I know she’d be proud that my job is helping people into a secure home’
Florence Eshalomi

‘Mum’s no longer with us. I know she’d be proud that my job is helping people into a secure home’

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in ‘landlord-class Britain’?
Investigation

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in ‘landlord-class Britain’?

Labour ‘turning the tide’ on homelessness but Burnham ‘must go further’ to help homeless kids
Housing

Labour ‘turning the tide’ on homelessness but Burnham ‘must go further’ to help homeless kids

Homelessness could rise by 25% by the end of the decade. Here’s how Andy Burnham can take action
Housing

Homelessness could rise by 25% by the end of the decade. Here’s how Andy Burnham can take action

Cost of housing homeless families could stop councils delivering on Andy Burnham housebuilding plans
Housing

Cost of housing homeless families could stop councils delivering on Andy Burnham housebuilding plans

Fancy spending a heatwave in a former office block? That’s the reality for thousands of families
heatwave

Fancy spending a heatwave in a former office block? That’s the reality for thousands of families

Prince William: ‘If systems help create homelessness, systems can help prevent it’
Housing

Prince William: ‘If systems help create homelessness, systems can help prevent it’

‘As a frontline homelessness worker, I know that pets can be just as vulnerable as their owners’
Mark Handford

‘As a frontline homelessness worker, I know that pets can be just as vulnerable as their owners’

‘For someone who has lost their home, their income, their family, a dog might be all they have’
homelessness

‘For someone who has lost their home, their income, their family, a dog might be all they have’

One in eight children growing up homeless has a disability: ‘Nobody cares about us’
Homelessness

One in eight children growing up homeless has a disability: ‘Nobody cares about us’

‘I probably would have given my son up without help from a baby bank. No one else supported me’
Homelessness

‘I probably would have given my son up without help from a baby bank. No one else supported me’

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Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: ‘I’d be lost without her’
Housing

Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: ‘I’d be lost without her’

How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world
Opinion

How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world

How estate agent firms are cashing in on housing homeless families in London
Housing

How estate agent firms are cashing in on housing homeless families in London

‘I was told I’m lucky I don’t sleep in the kitchen. But we have a fridge-freezer next to the bed’
Housing

‘I was told I’m lucky I don’t sleep in the kitchen. But we have a fridge-freezer next to the bed’