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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.
So-called 'landlord exodus' divides opinion amid Renters' Rights Bill debate in the Lords
Peer Lord Best in the House of Lords
RENTING

So-called 'landlord exodus' divides opinion amid Renters' Rights Bill debate in the Lords

I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers
Harleen Nottay presenter of UNTOLD, SCAMMED: BRITAIN’S RENTAL RIP OFF
RENTING

I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers

Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves almost one million children at risk of poverty
chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner
Housing benefit

Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves almost one million children at risk of poverty

This council is turning to the private sector to fix Britain's draughty homes and reach net zero
Housing

This council is turning to the private sector to fix Britain's draughty homes and reach net zero

Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026
rough sleeping in London
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026

The stigma of living in social housing is holding people back. That must change
social housing
Rick Liddiment

The stigma of living in social housing is holding people back. That must change

MPs and voters agree that there is a housing crisis – but they're split on how to solve it
chancellor Rachel Reeves
Housing crisis

MPs and voters agree that there is a housing crisis – but they're split on how to solve it

'It's surreal': Big Issue vendor sees his own portrait at powerful homelessness exhibition
Big Issue vendor Dave Martin looking at his portrait during at the Outsiders project exhibition
Our Vendors

'It's surreal': Big Issue vendor sees his own portrait at powerful homelessness exhibition

Rachel Reeves sets Labour on collision course with environmentalists over 'bats and newts'
a bat
Nature

Rachel Reeves sets Labour on collision course with environmentalists over 'bats and newts'

This UK music festival is building homes and tackling homelessness: 'It's a festival of giving'
metal band Evil Scarecrow at UK music festival Beat the Streets
Homelessness

This UK music festival is building homes and tackling homelessness: 'It's a festival of giving'

'It's deeply upsetting': 80 homeless children have died in temporary accommodation in just one year
A child at home
Temporary accommodation

'It's deeply upsetting': 80 homeless children have died in temporary accommodation in just one year

The mouldiest places in Britain to live, revealed
The city of Plymouth
Damp and mould

The mouldiest places in Britain to live, revealed

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