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Social rent homes plummeted by 200,000 in eight years, warns housing review
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Housing

Social rent homes plummeted by 200,000 in eight years, warns housing review

Our year of change: Being a Big Issue vendor during the Covid-19 crisis
Big Issue vendors Martin McKenzie
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Our year of change: Being a Big Issue vendor during the Covid-19 crisis

Transforming prison food: Traditional Bangladeshi chicken curry recipe
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Transforming prison food: Traditional Bangladeshi chicken curry recipe

Books behind bars: Not even Covid can stop the prison librarian
illustration - books behind bars: reading in prison
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Books behind bars: Not even Covid can stop the prison librarian

Illiteracy is high in prisons. Learning to read can reduce reoffending
Tackling illiteracy in prison - man teaching another man to read
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Illiteracy is high in prisons. Learning to read can reduce reoffending

Meet the ex-inmates helped by music in prison
The Big Issue has heard from two former prisoners on how InHouse’s programmes helped them on the inside. Image credit: supplied
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Meet the ex-inmates helped by music in prison

The music label helping prisoners dream beyond their cell walls
InHouse Records. Aux. Volume 9, Issue 3. January 2020. Image credit: InHouse Records
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The music label helping prisoners dream beyond their cell walls

Homeless Bill of Rights adopted by council in UK first
The Homeless Bill of Rights has already been adopted by 45 European cities
Housing

Homeless Bill of Rights adopted by council in UK first

'There were cockroaches': Children on life in temporary accommodation
Young people in Birmingham talked about being placed in low quality temporary accommodation. Image credit: Piqsels
Housing

'There were cockroaches': Children on life in temporary accommodation

Everyone In a year on: ‘It saved lives but did not truly mean everyone’
The Everyone In scheme moved 37,000 people off the streets during lockdown
Housing

Everyone In a year on: ‘It saved lives but did not truly mean everyone’

Housing crisis forces Birmingham boy to make 170-mile round trip to school 
The housing crisis meant Issac was forced to travel from Birmingham to Manchester for school. Image credit: J. Hannan-Briggs / Geograph
Housing

Housing crisis forces Birmingham boy to make 170-mile round trip to school 

Forget the Greta Thunberg statue, make room for The Big Issue's Kev
Greta Thunberg could find herself sharing a plinth with a Big Issue vendor Kev. Image credit: Anders Hellberg / Wikimedia Commons
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Forget the Greta Thunberg statue, make room for The Big Issue's Kev

Does the climate movement have a diversity problem?
climate justice
Environment

Does the climate movement have a diversity problem?

Can rough sleeping be ended without ending the hostile environment?
Can rough sleeping be ended while the UK pursues its hostile environment strategy? Image credit: Piqsels
Housing

Can rough sleeping be ended without ending the hostile environment?

Electric vehicles: What you need to know about EVs
Electric vehicles could help tackle the climate crisis. Image credit: Piqsels
Environment

Electric vehicles: What you need to know about EVs

Alan Turing honoured on £50 note in ‘landmark moment’ for LGBT+ history
Alan Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013.
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Alan Turing honoured on £50 note in ‘landmark moment’ for LGBT+ history

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Erwin James: 'Prison is a challenge. You’ll be grateful you can read'
Erwin James
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Erwin James: 'Prison is a challenge. You’ll be grateful you can read'

Three quarters of children in poverty live in a working household
Social Justice

Three quarters of children in poverty live in a working household

Plans to give young homeless a job and home ‘rapidly expanding' in UK cities
Centrepoint is hoping to provide housing for vulnerable young people. Image credit: BLJ London
Housing

Plans to give young homeless a job and home ‘rapidly expanding' in UK cities

Young people key to closing digital skills gap amid Covid unemployment
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Employment

Young people key to closing digital skills gap amid Covid unemployment

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