Criminal Justice Bill: Plan to criminalise rough sleeping will 'punish people with nowhere to go'
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Criminal Justice Bill: Plan to criminalise rough sleeping will 'punish people with nowhere to go'
Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
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Sure Start centres helped poorer children do better at GCSEs – before being decimated by Tories
Rent will rise faster than wages for years, think tank warns: 'Nowhere to hide from housing crisis'
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Rent will rise faster than wages for years, think tank warns: 'Nowhere to hide from housing crisis'
Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: 'I'll be a renters' champion'
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Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: 'I'll be a renters' champion'
Artist with autism uses drawing to make sense of the trauma of losing his home
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Artist with autism uses drawing to make sense of the trauma of losing his home
Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after 'absolutely disgusting' no-fault eviction
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Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after 'absolutely disgusting' no-fault eviction
'People should not be arrested if they smell': Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness
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'People should not be arrested if they smell': Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness
The Beautiful Game: Meet the real-life footballers who inspired Netflix's Homeless World Cup film
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The Beautiful Game: Meet the real-life footballers who inspired Netflix's Homeless World Cup film
Local housing allowance is finally going up. But is it anything more than just a short-term fix?
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Local housing allowance is finally going up. But is it anything more than just a short-term fix?
Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be 'watered down' to 'appease landlords'
![Renters Reform Bill failed to tackling private renting crisis](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/011A0958-3.jpg?w=768)
Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be 'watered down' to 'appease landlords'
Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill
![Renters and the Renters Reform Bill](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/pexels-rdne-stock-project-8293778.jpg?w=768)
Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill
ONS U-turns on plan to stop publishing data on deaths of homeless people after furious outcry
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