Liam Geraghty, Author at Big Issue

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.

Dogs

Meet the renters and pets spending their first Christmas together: 'I definitely took it for granted'

a girl in the front room of a home in front of the window

Homelessness

GPs and teachers to be told when kids become homeless as part of Labour's child poverty strategy

A man and a woman with their two dogs in a tent

Homelessness

What a row over a tent village in London's West End says about the homelessness crisis

a homeless man pictured in his temporary accommodation

Homelessness

Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress

housing secretary Steve Reed in hard hat and high vis

Housebuilding

How Reeves' autumn budget dealt a brutal blow to Labour's 1.5 million new homes pledge

Renting

Labour's choice to freeze local housing allowance will 'condemn thousands to another grim winter'

Ferndale Rise in Cambridge before and after renovation

Housing

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills

a person lies on the pavement facing away from the camera, with a guitar propped up beside them

Homelessness

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person

homelessness

Remarkable turnaround for man who lived in woods for a year: 'I thought I was going to be there forever'

Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor 'loses everything' in Storm Claudia floods that left him 'worried for his life'

Housing

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

Married At First Sight UK star Davide Anica

Homelessness

Meet the renters and pets spending their first Christmas together: 'I definitely took it for granted'

GPs and teachers to be told when kids become homeless as part of Labour's child poverty strategy

What a row over a tent village in London's West End says about the homelessness crisis

Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress

How Reeves' autumn budget dealt a brutal blow to Labour's 1.5 million new homes pledge

Labour's choice to freeze local housing allowance will 'condemn thousands to another grim winter'

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person

Remarkable turnaround for man who lived in woods for a year: 'I thought I was going to be there forever'

Big Issue vendor 'loses everything' in Storm Claudia floods that left him 'worried for his life'

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

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

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