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Housing

Public transport not keeping up with surge in new homes, analysis finds: ‘We must plan more intelligently’
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Public transport

Public transport not keeping up with surge in new homes, analysis finds: ‘We must plan more intelligently’

Labour has promised to build 1.5 million homes with councils tasked with delivering 370,000 homes a year. But some of the highest housing targets are in areas of poor public transport, analysis from Transport for Homes has found
Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’

Social services threatened to take refugee’s newborn baby away in row over horror hostel
A stock image of a baby's foot
Asylum accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee’s newborn baby away in row over horror hostel

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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

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If we want to prevent modern slavery, we must start with preventing homelessness

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a homeless person on the street
Matt Downie

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’

‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing
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‘This has been my shelter’: Powerful exhibition spotlights artists with experience of insecure housing

Renting

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Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?
a homeless person on the street
Matt Downie

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it
Trussell campaigner Amie Alissa Watson
Amie Alissa Watson

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it

Rough sleeping

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Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?
a homeless person on the street
Matt Downie

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?

Scrapping the Vagrancy Act won’t end the criminalisation of rough sleeping
a person rough sleeping on a wall
Benjamin Archer

Scrapping the Vagrancy Act won’t end the criminalisation of rough sleeping

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
uk heatwave
Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives
a man holding naloxone which can prevent drug overdoses
Drugs

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives

Housing advice

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

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

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather
Nicholas, in Liverpool, is wearing a grey beanie and coat with lots of layers under it
Homelessness

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Understanding the issues

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Public transport not keeping up with surge in new homes, analysis finds: ‘We must plan more intelligently’
a bus
Public transport

Public transport not keeping up with surge in new homes, analysis finds: ‘We must plan more intelligently’

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing ‘will literally save lives’

Social services threatened to take refugee’s newborn baby away in row over horror hostel
A stock image of a baby's foot
Asylum accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee’s newborn baby away in row over horror hostel

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
uk heatwave
Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

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