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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.
Government’s new £300m fund will stop 'avalanche of homelessness'
Homelessness

Government’s new £300m fund will stop 'avalanche of homelessness'

When will people affected by homelessness get a Covid-19 vaccine?
Vaccine on a tray with swabs and a band-aid
Housing

When will people affected by homelessness get a Covid-19 vaccine?

Rough sleepers to be given accommodation and offered booster jabs
Covid-19 vaccines
Omicron

Rough sleepers to be given accommodation and offered booster jabs

What can we learn from Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin?
Sanna Marin Finnish PM
Finland

What can we learn from Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin?

‘They’re making people homeless’: Over a hundred in London are facing a Christmas eviction
eviction
Renting

‘They’re making people homeless’: Over a hundred in London are facing a Christmas eviction

Will your football team be wearing an away kit on Boxing Day to raise awareness of homelessness?
No Home Kit Shelter
Homelessness

Will your football team be wearing an away kit on Boxing Day to raise awareness of homelessness?

Welsh government offers to buy flats caught up in cladding crisis
cladding Wales
Cladding

Welsh government offers to buy flats caught up in cladding crisis

A fix for Brussels' housing crisis and an eviction-battling Beirut project scoop World Habitat Awards
World Habitat Awards
Housing

A fix for Brussels' housing crisis and an eviction-battling Beirut project scoop World Habitat Awards

Mum and daughter to spend Christmas in hotel after waiting months for sewage leak to be fixed
Renting Dawn Page
Housing

Mum and daughter to spend Christmas in hotel after waiting months for sewage leak to be fixed

Grenfell campaigners step up calls for criminal charges
Grenfell Tower
Grenfell

Grenfell campaigners step up calls for criminal charges

Meet ex-homeless man ‘Mr Christmas’ who has decorated his house with 17,500 lights for charity
Mark Abbott formerly homeless now has Christmas lights
Christmas

Meet ex-homeless man ‘Mr Christmas’ who has decorated his house with 17,500 lights for charity

Drop a gift under Social Bite’s Christmas trees to help homeless people this winter
Social Bite
Christmas

Drop a gift under Social Bite’s Christmas trees to help homeless people this winter

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