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Competition watchdog launches investigation into house builders over failure to build enough homes
Watchdog to investigate housebuilders over the housing crisis
Housing crisis

Competition watchdog launches investigation into house builders over failure to build enough homes

How ex-Big Issue vendor went from rough sleeper to inspiring activist: 'I want to change the world'
Former Big Issue vendor Adam Khan
Our vendors

How ex-Big Issue vendor went from rough sleeper to inspiring activist: 'I want to change the world'

This ex-Big Issue vendor spent seven years homeless. Now she's using her experience to help others
Former Big Issue vendor Sharon Clint
Our vendors

This ex-Big Issue vendor spent seven years homeless. Now she's using her experience to help others

Big Issue vendor Nick Cuthbert pays tribute to beloved dog Bryony: 'It's the end of my world'
Big Issue vendor Nick Cuthbert and his pet dog Bryony
Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor Nick Cuthbert pays tribute to beloved dog Bryony: 'It's the end of my world'

'I miss home so much': Ukrainian refugee on life in UK two years into Russia's bloody war
Ukrainian refugee Luba Bilko, who fled her home near Kyiv in February 2022
Russia-Ukraine war

'I miss home so much': Ukrainian refugee on life in UK two years into Russia's bloody war

UK energy bills to fall – but millions still live in dangerously cold and damp homes
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Energy bills

UK energy bills to fall – but millions still live in dangerously cold and damp homes

'Care sector is on its knees': How Tory crackdown on overseas care workers will fuel exploitation
Immigration

'Care sector is on its knees': How Tory crackdown on overseas care workers will fuel exploitation

More than half of people on universal credit going without food because they can't afford it
Trussell Trust food banks
Food banks

More than half of people on universal credit going without food because they can't afford it

'An amazing U-turn': Home Office drops bid to allow asylum seekers to live in unsafe housing
Asylum seekers risked being left
Immigration

'An amazing U-turn': Home Office drops bid to allow asylum seekers to live in unsafe housing

Prince William to build social housing in his back garden to help end homelessness
Prince William at a meeting to launch Homewards, his mission to end homelessness
Homelessness

Prince William to build social housing in his back garden to help end homelessness

Inside the Big Issue: The filth and fury of Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The filth and fury of Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley

'It's awkward and stressful': Number of young people needing help with money doubles
young people money
Money

'It's awkward and stressful': Number of young people needing help with money doubles

Breathtaking and The Way: These are the next Mr Bates-style TV dramas poised to shake-up Britain
Toby Jones in Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Joanne Froggatt in Breathtaking and Callum Scott-Howells and Maja Laskowska in The Way.
TV

Breathtaking and The Way: These are the next Mr Bates-style TV dramas poised to shake-up Britain

UK recession is 'devastating' for people living in poverty who have 'nothing left to cut back'
recession
Recession

UK recession is 'devastating' for people living in poverty who have 'nothing left to cut back'

Jobcentre work coach driven to suicide attempt by 'bullying' culture at DWP: 'I felt worthless'
jobcentre
Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre work coach driven to suicide attempt by 'bullying' culture at DWP: 'I felt worthless'

Housing legal aid ‘on brink of collapse’, experts warn
legal aid protest
Justice

Housing legal aid ‘on brink of collapse’, experts warn

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Renters in Scotland face 'tidal wave of evictions' as rent cap and eviction ban comes to an end
Scottish renters want Patrick Harvie and other ministers to take action to protect them from end of the rent cap
RENTING

Renters in Scotland face 'tidal wave of evictions' as rent cap and eviction ban comes to an end

Council house tenants fear eviction after energy bills skyrocket by 350%: 'It's completely unfair'
council house residents fear eviction over energy bills surge
Cost of living crisis

Council house tenants fear eviction after energy bills skyrocket by 350%: 'It's completely unfair'

No-fault evictions will be banned by next election, Michael Gove promises: 'We will have outlawed it'
Michael Gove promises no-fault evictions will be banned by general election
RENTING

No-fault evictions will be banned by next election, Michael Gove promises: 'We will have outlawed it'

Councils need millions to prevent bankruptcy due to rising cost of homelessness: 'It's a national crisis'
Eastbourne pier homelessness
Homelessness

Councils need millions to prevent bankruptcy due to rising cost of homelessness: 'It's a national crisis'

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