Homelessness

How O2 are helping to tackle data poverty by offering free data to those in need this Christmas
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How O2 are helping to tackle data poverty by offering free data to those in need this Christmas

Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it
Affordable student housing in Denmark
Housing

Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it

A homelessness charity desperately needs help to feed 1,200 vulnerable people over Christmas
Crisis at Christmas
Activism

A homelessness charity desperately needs help to feed 1,200 vulnerable people over Christmas

I've spent Christmas in prison and on the street - finding recovery saved my life
Peter da Silva

I've spent Christmas in prison and on the street - finding recovery saved my life

Why The Crown stars have unveiled a giant sculpture of a homeless person
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Homelessness

Why The Crown stars have unveiled a giant sculpture of a homeless person

How The Salvation Army is helping homeless people find work
Employment

How The Salvation Army is helping homeless people find work

Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK
Homelessness

Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK

A London arts charity that rallied to help Grenfell victims is being evicted after 24 years
Zakia and Carlton show off their mosaics
Art

A London arts charity that rallied to help Grenfell victims is being evicted after 24 years

Here’s how we’re working with O2 to offer free mobile data to all our vendors
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Here’s how we’re working with O2 to offer free mobile data to all our vendors

The number of people sleeping rough in England could be double the official count
sleeping rough homelessness
Homelessness

The number of people sleeping rough in England could be double the official count

How the ONS measures deaths in the homeless community and why it’s so complex
homelessness rough sleeping Autumn Statement
Homeless deaths

How the ONS measures deaths in the homeless community and why it’s so complex

Two people died while homeless every day in England and Wales last year
homeless deaths
Homelessness

Two people died while homeless every day in England and Wales last year

The fight is on to ensure the Vagrancy Act stays dead
police vagrancy act
Layla Moran

The fight is on to ensure the Vagrancy Act stays dead

Drug deaths fall among Scotland’s homeless population for the first time
homeless deaths
Homelessness

Drug deaths fall among Scotland’s homeless population for the first time

‘It's a big worry’: Michael Gove hints government could miss target to end rough sleeping
Michael Gove rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

‘It's a big worry’: Michael Gove hints government could miss target to end rough sleeping

Why our Citroën electric vans are a bright light for vendors
Advertorial

Why our Citroën electric vans are a bright light for vendors

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Autumn Statement: What Jeremy Hunt needs to do to end rough sleeping for good
homelessness rough sleeping Autumn Statement
Homelessness

Autumn Statement: What Jeremy Hunt needs to do to end rough sleeping for good

Cézanne left me jaded, but I still dream of owning one of his works
Paul Cézanne
John Bird

Cézanne left me jaded, but I still dream of owning one of his works

Over 140 people died while homeless in London in the past year. This is how they’re remembered
homeless deaths
Housing

Over 140 people died while homeless in London in the past year. This is how they’re remembered

A veteran who was living in his car 18 months ago will march at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance

A veteran who was living in his car 18 months ago will march at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday