Housing
Housing, benefits and railways: Key takeaways from Labour's first King's Speech
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Housing, benefits and railways: Key takeaways from Labour's first King's Speech
This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness
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This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness
What will be in King's Speech? Here's 5 things to look out for – from benefits to conversion therapy
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What will be in King's Speech? Here's 5 things to look out for – from benefits to conversion therapy
Academics put trackers on homeless people – what they learned could be a 'game-changer'
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Academics put trackers on homeless people – what they learned could be a 'game-changer'
Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'
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Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'
Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals
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Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals
Prince William insists it's possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one
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Prince William insists it's possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one
'Pull your finger out': Can Keir Starmer really deliver change for those crying out for it?
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'Pull your finger out': Can Keir Starmer really deliver change for those crying out for it?
'I sofa surfed for four months': How 'out of control' renting crisis is hurting key workers
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'I sofa surfed for four months': How 'out of control' renting crisis is hurting key workers
Spent star Michelle de Swarte: 'Someone had to tell me I was homeless – I was in such denial'
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Spent star Michelle de Swarte: 'Someone had to tell me I was homeless – I was in such denial'
Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story
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Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story
Rachel Reeves brings back mandatory housing targets – but Labour has a huge mountain to climb
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Rachel Reeves brings back mandatory housing targets – but Labour has a huge mountain to climb
Inside the Big Issue: Kwajo Tweneboa's home truths for new government
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Inside the Big Issue: Kwajo Tweneboa's home truths for new government
UK needs 120,000 new rental homes to cut record-high rents, Rightmove warns
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UK needs 120,000 new rental homes to cut record-high rents, Rightmove warns
We urgently need a fresh cross-government approach to ending homelessness
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We urgently need a fresh cross-government approach to ending homelessness
Things can only get better... if the Labour government takes urgent action to tackle poverty
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Things can only get better... if the Labour government takes urgent action to tackle poverty
Keir Starmer can ‘only bring real change by fixing the housing emergency’
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Keir Starmer can ‘only bring real change by fixing the housing emergency’
Labour just won the election with a historic landslide. So what happens now?
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Labour just won the election with a historic landslide. So what happens now?
Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
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