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Homelessness

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people
Four people stand around an electric van
Homelessness

Electric van to help charity deliver 50,000 meals to homeless people

Big Issue Changemaker Feeding Communities will be able to more than double the number of meals it can give out to people experiencing homelessness, thanks to the new van
This is the devastating impact growing up in temporary accommodation has on children’s GCSE results
school children at desks
Education

This is the devastating impact growing up in temporary accommodation has on children’s GCSE results

Inside the Big Issue: Jeff Goldblum and his keys to life
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Jeff Goldblum and his keys to life

'They had nowhere to go': The story of rough sleepers left outside in London's Covid-19 lockdowns
Homelessness

'They had nowhere to go': The story of rough sleepers left outside in London's Covid-19 lockdowns

Covid effectively ended rough sleeping with the Everyone In scheme. So where did it all go wrong?
Homelessness

Covid effectively ended rough sleeping with the Everyone In scheme. So where did it all go wrong?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
We must prepare for a hard-right election win in 2029, says Museum of Homelessness founder
10Foot Takeover

We must prepare for a hard-right election win in 2029, says Museum of Homelessness founder

Labour must learn from the Covid-era Everyone In scheme to end homelessness
a person experiencing homelessness sleeping rough on the streets
John Glenton

Labour must learn from the Covid-era Everyone In scheme to end homelessness

40 years since it started, what's the point of Comic Relief?
Joanna Lumley and Amelia Dimoldenberg starred in a special sketch to launch Red Nose Day 2025. Image: by Daniel Loveday/Comic Relief
Samir Patel

40 years since it started, what's the point of Comic Relief?

Former homeless people take over empty Debenhams to open one of UK's biggest charity shops
People at the Emmaus Preston Department Store
Homelessness

Former homeless people take over empty Debenhams to open one of UK's biggest charity shops

Single mum forced to share bed with daughter in 'severely overcrowded' flat wins legal battle
Housing campaigners call for no more overcrowding
Homelessness

Single mum forced to share bed with daughter in 'severely overcrowded' flat wins legal battle

'Being alive is utterly exhausting': How Covid forced people out of work and onto benefits
long-covid patient pictures
Five years since the pandemic

'Being alive is utterly exhausting': How Covid forced people out of work and onto benefits

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Human rights

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz
Housing Justice refugee lodgings programme
Refugee homelessness

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
RENTING

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law

Rough sleeping in England soars by 20% in just a year: 'It's a red alert warning'
a homeless man rough sleeping
Homelessness

Rough sleeping in England soars by 20% in just a year: 'It's a red alert warning'

Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali: 'We must take difficult decisions now to get back on track'
homelessness minister Rushanara Ali
Rushanara Ali

Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali: 'We must take difficult decisions now to get back on track'

Labour doubles emergency homelessness funding to £60m: 'No one should live in fear of losing their home'
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali and housing secretary Angela Rayner
Homelessness

Labour doubles emergency homelessness funding to £60m: 'No one should live in fear of losing their home'

Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war: 'Peace is hard to imagine'
Ukraine Kharkiv bomb shelter
Ukraine

Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war: 'Peace is hard to imagine'

Meet the couple who gave away their two houses to help people in homelessness: 'It's satisfying'
Valerie and Chris Norris, a couple in Swansea, who have donated their houses to fight homelessness
Homelessness

Meet the couple who gave away their two houses to help people in homelessness: 'It's satisfying'

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird at a rough sleeping inquiry
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough
homelessness
Homelessness

Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen
Levi Roots cuts the ribbon to launch the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre. To his right is Sistah Stella Headley and to his left is Jean-Michel Grand, the chief executive of Action Against Hunger UK.
Food poverty

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen

Homelessness on the rise in Finland for first time in over a decade: 'It's unacceptable'
streets of Helsinki
Homelessness

Homelessness on the rise in Finland for first time in over a decade: 'It's unacceptable'

'Staggering' increase in young people facing homelessness, charity says
homeless peoples' tents in street
News

'Staggering' increase in young people facing homelessness, charity says

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