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.

Homelessness

Police launch probe after Liverpool cafe serving homeless people for free hit with third break-in in two weeks

House prices

This seaside town has seen the highest rise in house prices over the last decade

Paper Cup Coffee opened last year in Liverpool to give homeless people free food

Homelessness

‘We had to turn away a man who hadn’t eaten for two days’: Liverpool café serving homeless people for free broken into twice in two weeks

Food poverty

Four out of five people getting loans from supermarket Iceland to cover food costs are women

Installing insulation is a way to insulate homes and tackle climate change and rising energy bills

Climate crisis

Would you pay to insulate your home to tackle climate change?

RENTING

Renters who complain are twice as likely to be evicted by their landlord

social homes like Kentmere Tower in Birmingham England

Social housing

England lost more than 200,000 of the most affordable social homes in the last decade

Rough Sleeping

Rishi Sunak’s anti-social behaviour action plan is ‘dressing old laws up in new clothes’

Our vendors

Popular Big Issue vendor seriously injured after being run over near his pitch

Building safety crisis

‘It’s like living through torture’ Tower block residents made homeless over post-Grenfell fire risks

Big Issue vendor Steve Wyatt and The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades