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How we could avoid the looming homelessness crisis – and save billions at the same time
Stop Mass Homelessness

How we could avoid the looming homelessness crisis – and save billions at the same time

Councils back The Big Issue's Stop Mass Homelessness campaign
Stop Mass Homelessness
Housing

Councils back The Big Issue's Stop Mass Homelessness campaign

Disabled people are speaking out about Travelodge's accessible room policy
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Disability

Disabled people are speaking out about Travelodge's accessible room policy

Social housing tenants block roads in protest outside £345-a-head UK Housing Awards
Social housing

Social housing tenants block roads in protest outside £345-a-head UK Housing Awards

Insulate Britain protesters face prison after fresh court summons
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Insulate Britain

Insulate Britain protesters face prison after fresh court summons

This pioneering project defied national reoffending rates - by giving young people a job
Employment

This pioneering project defied national reoffending rates - by giving young people a job

Kitmas campaign will give football shirts to thousands of children in poverty this Christmas
Kitmas founder Paul Watson
Charity

Kitmas campaign will give football shirts to thousands of children in poverty this Christmas

Protesters gather outside Home Office to rally against Channel crossing deaths
Home Office

Protesters gather outside Home Office to rally against Channel crossing deaths

Government blocks bid to scrap 200-year-old law that criminalises rough sleeping
vagrancy act
Vagrancy Act

Government blocks bid to scrap 200-year-old law that criminalises rough sleeping

Meet the fashion editor, pig farmer and aircraft engineer who quit to fight the climate crisis
Activism

Meet the fashion editor, pig farmer and aircraft engineer who quit to fight the climate crisis

'The water turned brown while I was in it': Sewage pollution rises by more than 80% in a year
Water pollution

'The water turned brown while I was in it': Sewage pollution rises by more than 80% in a year

MPs launch inquiry into NHS staffing crisis
A protestor holds a sign saying
Employment

MPs launch inquiry into NHS staffing crisis

At least 27 people die after migrant boat capsizes in Channel
News

At least 27 people die after migrant boat capsizes in Channel

This man was sleeping at Heathrow's Terminal 5 when Covid hit. Now he's made a film about it
homeless in Heathrow
Homelessness

This man was sleeping at Heathrow's Terminal 5 when Covid hit. Now he's made a film about it

MPs join calls for Windrush compensation scheme to be taken off Home Office
Windrush Scandal

MPs join calls for Windrush compensation scheme to be taken off Home Office

Borders Bill will be 'catastrophic' for victims of modern slavery, MPs told
Home Office

Borders Bill will be 'catastrophic' for victims of modern slavery, MPs told

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Almost all Welsh councils are bracing themselves for a surge in homelessness this winter
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Housing

Almost all Welsh councils are bracing themselves for a surge in homelessness this winter

Food banks are giving out almost 2,000 emergency parcels to children every day
food banks
Food banks

Food banks are giving out almost 2,000 emergency parcels to children every day

Smoke alarms will finally be required in social housing - almost five years after Grenfell
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Fire Safety

Smoke alarms will finally be required in social housing - almost five years after Grenfell

Five graphs that show why the world today is so unfair for young people
Future generations

Five graphs that show why the world today is so unfair for young people

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