Housing

I was homeless as a child. I know what Andy Burnham needs to do to end rough sleeping for good
Danny Beales walks down a street in Ruislip Manor with a blue bridge in the background spelling the name of the area
Danny Beales

I was homeless as a child. I know what Andy Burnham needs to do to end rough sleeping for good

Labour MP Danny Beales experienced homelessness as a child. He says Andy Burnham must harness the power of the impact economy if he is to prevent rough sleeping for good
Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’
a train at a station in the UK
Russell Curtis

Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’

Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 
Keely Dalfen (second from right) with some of the team at The Brick
Housing

Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? 

Not every pensioner lives in a mortgage-free home. Rising rents mean more are facing homelessness
Morgan Vine

Not every pensioner lives in a mortgage-free home. Rising rents mean more are facing homelessness

Big Issue vendors react to Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping pledge: ‘It would mean the world’
Housing

Big Issue vendors react to Andy Burnham’s rough sleeping pledge: ‘It would mean the world’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'RIP Jane. You’ve been a fixture of everyday Wimbledon life forever'
Letters

'RIP Jane. You’ve been a fixture of everyday Wimbledon life forever'

‘I work with homeless veterans. It takes more than a bed for Christmas to help them out of homelessness’
Lisa Farmer OBE is chief executive of Royal British Veterans Enterprise
Lisa Farmer

‘I work with homeless veterans. It takes more than a bed for Christmas to help them out of homelessness’

Inside the Big Issue: 128 days to end rough sleeping
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: 128 days to end rough sleeping

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: 'Bills are rising but so are we'
Acorn protesters occupied offices to protest the cost of living crisis
Protest

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: 'Bills are rising but so are we'

Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?

‘If people are sleeping rough, to me it says we don't have the care for people that we should have’
prime minister Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street
Housing

‘If people are sleeping rough, to me it says we don't have the care for people that we should have’

Andy Burnham to donate 15% of PM's salary to homelessness fight: ‘I want to lead from the front’
Prime minister Andy Burnham cooking at homelessness charity The Passage
Housing

Andy Burnham to donate 15% of PM's salary to homelessness fight: ‘I want to lead from the front’

Every rough sleeper to be offered a route off the street by Christmas, says Andy Burnham
prime minister Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street
Rough sleeping

Every rough sleeper to be offered a route off the street by Christmas, says Andy Burnham

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King
King Charles III
Nye Jones

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King

Florence Eshalomi named as homelessness minister: 'I know what a difference a safe home makes'
Housing committee chair Florence Eshalomi heads a committee on children living in temporary accommodation
Homelessness

Florence Eshalomi named as homelessness minister: 'I know what a difference a safe home makes'

Right-wing parties keep promising to ban foreigners from social housing. Here's why it won't work
A housing estate in England
Housing crisis

Right-wing parties keep promising to ban foreigners from social housing. Here's why it won't work

I founded a homelessness charity 10 years ago. These are the moments that kept me going
Louise Reed hugging a man facing homelessness in Leeds
Louise Reed

I founded a homelessness charity 10 years ago. These are the moments that kept me going

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in 'landlord-class Britain'?
The silhouette of a homeless person sat in front of a house illustrated as a calculator
Investigation

Andy Burnham wants to prevent homelessness. But can he do it in 'landlord-class Britain'?

Labour 'turning the tide' on homelessness but Burnham 'must go further' to help homeless kids
Prime minister Andy Burnham pictured with a child in Sheffield
Housing

Labour 'turning the tide' on homelessness but Burnham 'must go further' to help homeless kids

Britain needs a new system to tackle homelessness. Here's how Andy Burnham can change it
Prime minister Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street
Ligia Teixeira

Britain needs a new system to tackle homelessness. Here's how Andy Burnham can change it

'It's none of Trump's business how we run our internal affairs'
Letters

'It's none of Trump's business how we run our internal affairs'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The growing movement preventing homeless people from having to choose between their pet and a home
Newcastle's drop-in hub The Joseph Cowen Health Centre has a pet-friendly policy
Pets

The growing movement preventing homeless people from having to choose between their pet and a home

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?
people on the Otley Run in Leeds
Health inequality

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?

Andy Burnham wants to end rough sleeping. These new statistics show the challenge he faces
Andy Burnham volunteering at London homelessness charity The Passage on the day he was named prime minister
Homelessness

Andy Burnham wants to end rough sleeping. These new statistics show the challenge he faces

‘The reality in Ukraine is stark. But there is hope in addressing homelessness’
a homeless man is offered support at Depaul International's Kyiv shelter
Guest Columnist

‘The reality in Ukraine is stark. But there is hope in addressing homelessness’