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Labour must urgently tackle land banking to have any hope of solving UK's housing crisis
Housing

Labour must urgently tackle land banking to have any hope of solving UK's housing crisis

What's behind low levels of literacy among people experiencing homelessness?
Education

What's behind low levels of literacy among people experiencing homelessness?

Five-month wait for housing benefit boost risks 18,000 Londoners falling into homelessness
Single Homeless Project's Tadhg Mockler said the wait for housing benefit to be boosted when local housing allowance rates rise in April is keeping people trapped in homelessness
Homelessness

Five-month wait for housing benefit boost risks 18,000 Londoners falling into homelessness

Big Issue vendor Kelvin Gregory pays tribute to beloved dog and 'dear friend' Ralph
Vendor Kelvin Gregory
Our vendors

Big Issue vendor Kelvin Gregory pays tribute to beloved dog and 'dear friend' Ralph

Exposed wires, black mould and rats: State of student housing leaving residents with health issues
Student housing

Exposed wires, black mould and rats: State of student housing leaving residents with health issues

A person is reported missing every 90 seconds in UK – and cost of living crisis is making it worse
Missing piece of puzzle
Missing persons

A person is reported missing every 90 seconds in UK – and cost of living crisis is making it worse

DWP is 'penalising' terminally ill people for 'not dying fast enough', campaigner warns
Mark Hughes
Benefits

DWP is 'penalising' terminally ill people for 'not dying fast enough', campaigner warns

Asylum seekers 'setting themselves on fire' due to conditions at Wethersfield immigration centre
Wethersfield
Immigration

Asylum seekers 'setting themselves on fire' due to conditions at Wethersfield immigration centre

Uncertainty over minister for disabled people role sparks backlash: 'What message does this send?'
dwp
DWP

Uncertainty over minister for disabled people role sparks backlash: 'What message does this send?'

'Diana used to give me a beautiful smile': The real story of The Big Issue vendor and Princess Diana
Big Issue vendor Frank McGucken in a Santa hat
Our Vendors

'Diana used to give me a beautiful smile': The real story of The Big Issue vendor and Princess Diana

Homeless refugees in Leeds skyrocket due to Home Office evictions: 'It's a humanitarian emergency'
Leeds, homeless
Refugee Homelessness Crisis

Homeless refugees in Leeds skyrocket due to Home Office evictions: 'It's a humanitarian emergency'

'Ministers aren't interested in evidence': DWP sanctions are driving people to disability benefits
Pound coins on a piece of paper with disability living allowancve
Benefits

'Ministers aren't interested in evidence': DWP sanctions are driving people to disability benefits

Hundreds of thousands of people in England will spend this Christmas homeless: 'Out of control'
309,000 people are homeless in England say Shelter
Homelessness

Hundreds of thousands of people in England will spend this Christmas homeless: 'Out of control'

Human rights and rule of law under threat in UK after Rwanda bill vote, charities warn
Rwanda deportation flights protest
Immigration

Human rights and rule of law under threat in UK after Rwanda bill vote, charities warn

Trans Secret Santa: How a little bit of happiness over Christmas could save a trans person's life
Anthony Lexa
Christmas

Trans Secret Santa: How a little bit of happiness over Christmas could save a trans person's life

Bibby Stockholm: Death of asylum seeker on barge is devastating but 'not surprising', charity says
Bibby Stockholm
Bibby Stockholm

Bibby Stockholm: Death of asylum seeker on barge is devastating but 'not surprising', charity says

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Death certificate': Why COP28 climate summit is hanging by a thread over fossil fuel deadlock
Climate change

'Death certificate': Why COP28 climate summit is hanging by a thread over fossil fuel deadlock

Union leaders vow to resist Tories' 'unworkable and undemocratic' new anti-strike laws
Protesters hold up flags and placards at a protest in London on October 1, 2022.
Strikes

Union leaders vow to resist Tories' 'unworkable and undemocratic' new anti-strike laws

How the tragic death of a man in an overcrowded flat exposed the dire truth about slumlord Britain
Maddocks House flat after the fire
Maddocks House

How the tragic death of a man in an overcrowded flat exposed the dire truth about slumlord Britain

Risk of dying from cancer much higher in poorer areas of England, shameful study shows
manchester
Poverty

Risk of dying from cancer much higher in poorer areas of England, shameful study shows

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