Housing

One mum's months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: 'I need answers'
Former Big Issue vendor Richard Sanders
Homelessness

One mum's months-long ordeal to find out how her son died in a homeless hostel: 'I need answers'

The first-ever World Vacant Homes Day is putting focus on bringing empty homes back into use
boarded-up empty homes
Adam Cliff and Tom Gilligan

The first-ever World Vacant Homes Day is putting focus on bringing empty homes back into use

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: 'People continue to be failed'
Homeless deaths tribute
Homelessness

Four people died while homeless every day in the UK last year: 'People continue to be failed'

Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight
Renters angry at no-fault evictions, Renters Reform Bill delay and a lack of rent controls
Landlords

Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how
a tent on the street
Lauren Aronin

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
a homeless man in hot weather
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is 'a fatal tragedy waiting to happen'
A burnt down caravan at Ver Meadows
Gypsies and Travellers

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is 'a fatal tragedy waiting to happen'

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes 'ground-breaking' housing bill
Living Rent campaigners demand rent controls outside Holyrood
Housing

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes 'ground-breaking' housing bill

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like
Andy Burnham with Big Issue vendor Colin
Politics

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like

Where are Labour's new towns going to be built?
housing secretary Steve Reed
New towns

Where are Labour's new towns going to be built?

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved
Exodus Eyob who died after falling from a seventh-floor flat
Housing

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved

Harris Dickinson: 'There are so many injustices. How do you stay across all of them?'
Film

Harris Dickinson: 'There are so many injustices. How do you stay across all of them?'

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail
Campbell Robb

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?
A plumber is reaching up into the bottom of a boiler in a white room
Renting

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: 'It's entirely wrong'
Blackpool
Homelessness

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: 'It's entirely wrong'

Brain disease linked to boxers and American football players found in homeless people
american football helmet
Homelessness

Brain disease linked to boxers and American football players found in homeless people

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

Inside the Big Issue: Harris Dickinson is a street-level superstar
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Harris Dickinson is a street-level superstar

Blaming bats and newts for the housing problem is straight from the Trump playbook
A fragment of Britain's ancient rainforests at Coed Crafnant.
Paul de Zylva

Blaming bats and newts for the housing problem is straight from the Trump playbook

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn
Tina who lives in temporary accommodation
Homelessness

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn