Home
Homelessness

Homelessness

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprtb { display: none !important; }

Why the world needs to embrace our Stop Mass Homelessness campaign

We need your help to prevent mass homelessness. Contact your MP and help us avoid another emergency, asks Big Issue founder John Bird.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprtc { display: none !important; }

Housing

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2021

Experts worry about a looming crisis of homelessness. These are the rough sleeping figures and homelessness facts you need to know.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprtd { display: none !important; }

Housing

How many people are homeless in the UK? And what can you do about it?

Knowing the scale of the issue is vital to understanding how to solve it

Housing

Moving private renters into social homes could save the government £2billion a year

Life

Meet the people selling street papers around the world

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprua { display: none !important; }

Housing

Rent arrears ‘much worse than feared’ ahead of UK cost of living crisis

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprub { display: none !important; }

Housing

A ‘secret museum’ aims to showcase the real story of homelessness during Covid

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqpruc { display: none !important; }

Housing

More than 50 organisations call on government to prevent impending ‘mass homelessness crisis’

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprud { display: none !important; }

Social Justice

‘My parents tried to pray for me’: How prejudice is driving LGBTQ+ homelessness

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprue { display: none !important; }

Opinion

Emotional wellbeing is at the heart of ending homelessness

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqpruf { display: none !important; }

Opinion

Michael Gove must create a national Housing First programme

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprug { display: none !important; }

Housing

Meet the campaigner launching the ‘Uber for homelessness’

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqpruh { display: none !important; }

Housing

Volunteer-led homeless outreach team having to expand as crisis worsens

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_ekuzqprui { display: none !important; }

Subscribe to The Big Issue

From just £3 per week

Take a print or digital subscription to The Big Issue and provide a critical lifeline to our work. With each subscription we invest every penny back into supporting the network of sellers across the UK. A subscription also means you'll never miss the weekly editions of an award-winning publication, with each issue featuring the leading voices on life, culture, politics and social activism.