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Homelessness

Rough sleeping has risen by 26% in a year amid the cost of living crisis
Homelessness
Homelessness

Rough sleeping has risen by 26% in a year amid the cost of living crisis

Why are Ukrainians finding themselves homeless in the UK?
Ukrainians facing homelessness after fleeing Ukraine war
Ukraine

Why are Ukrainians finding themselves homeless in the UK?

A year of tackling homelessness on the frontline in Ukraine
Father Viltaliy Novak
Ukraine

A year of tackling homelessness on the frontline in Ukraine

Malign rhetoric on refugees is not welcome here
Signs saying refugees welcome
Paul McNamee

Malign rhetoric on refugees is not welcome here

‘Poker chips’ used to give hot drinks to homeless people to launch in Co-op stores
Homelessness

‘Poker chips’ used to give hot drinks to homeless people to launch in Co-op stores

Ukraine: One mother’s story of how she found herself facing homelessness in the UK
Ukraine homelessness Anna Bozhenko
Ukraine

Ukraine: One mother’s story of how she found herself facing homelessness in the UK

'It looks like a sick joke': Priti Patel accused of hypocrisy after calling on the government to house refugees
Priti Patel
Ukraine

'It looks like a sick joke': Priti Patel accused of hypocrisy after calling on the government to house refugees

Are we doomed to repeat the cost of living crisis? This archive film shows how little has changed in the UK
cost of living archive film
Cost of living crisis

Are we doomed to repeat the cost of living crisis? This archive film shows how little has changed in the UK

Here's what we should do with Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Monument by Rachel Whiteread
Letters

Here's what we should do with Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth

Campaigners halt eviction after man told his home is ‘no longer used for the Eritrean Community’
eviction Eritrea
Housing

Campaigners halt eviction after man told his home is ‘no longer used for the Eritrean Community’

Government urged to bring through rent reforms as evictions double
Renting reform could help prevent people like Asia from being evicted
Renting

Government urged to bring through rent reforms as evictions double

Soho Big Issue seller André is on a mission to publish his novel – here's how you can get involved
Big Issue seller André Rostant Photo: Dale Brodie
crowdfunding

Soho Big Issue seller André is on a mission to publish his novel – here's how you can get involved

Pledges to end homelessness collide with inconvenient truths
A person sleeping on the street
Paul McNamee

Pledges to end homelessness collide with inconvenient truths

Brighton has its first night shelter specifically for LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ homelessness
LGBTQ+

Brighton has its first night shelter specifically for LGBTQ+ people

Here are the charities leading the fight against LGBTQ+ homelessness in the UK
LGBTQ+

Here are the charities leading the fight against LGBTQ+ homelessness in the UK

Number of people sleeping rough for the first time in London increased by a third before Christmas
rough sleeping London
Rough sleeping

Number of people sleeping rough for the first time in London increased by a third before Christmas

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Waterloo Road: Danny's story shines a light on youth homelessness
Adam Abbou
Homelessness

Waterloo Road: Danny's story shines a light on youth homelessness

Big Issue vendor uses magazine sales to fund Philippines retirement
Big Issue vendor AJ
Our vendors

Big Issue vendor uses magazine sales to fund Philippines retirement

Intimate portraits of home and homelessness at the new Centre for British Photography
Untitled (NRAL 2 from Ray’s a Laugh), 1994. Part of the exhibition The English at Home at the Centre for British Photography. © Richard Billingham
home

Intimate portraits of home and homelessness at the new Centre for British Photography

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Housing and homelessness
A man in a kitchen at Rene House
Changemakers 2023

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Housing and homelessness

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