Rough Sleeping
Anger over plan to axe data on people who die while homeless: 'Now is not the time'
![homeless deaths](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/jon-tyson-6wOeGqQ-5f4-unsplash-1.jpg?w=768)
Anger over plan to axe data on people who die while homeless: 'Now is not the time'
Until we understand what stigma is, people like Suella Braverman will get away with it every time
![Suella Braverman has sparked a furious backlash](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/52507113567_8af367948b_k.jpg?w=768)
Until we understand what stigma is, people like Suella Braverman will get away with it every time
Storm Pia: 'Danger to life' weather warning should put focus on rough sleepers and homeless people
![A tent for a person rough sleeping and facing homelessness](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/shutterstock_editorial_14258041b.jpg?w=768)
Storm Pia: 'Danger to life' weather warning should put focus on rough sleepers and homeless people
Late Scottish artist's powerful sketches of homeless people discovered in attic after 30 years
![Robert McKee homelessness art in Dundee](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-6.png?w=768)
Late Scottish artist's powerful sketches of homeless people discovered in attic after 30 years
Black people more likely to be arrested for being homeless, research finds: 'This shames our country'
![the Vagrancy Act has criminalised people who are rough sleeping or begging for 200 years](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/355981408_d36e0c040b_o.jpg?w=768)
Black people more likely to be arrested for being homeless, research finds: 'This shames our country'
Hundreds of thousands of people in England will spend this Christmas homeless: 'Out of control'
![309,000 people are homeless in England say Shelter](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image007.jpg?w=768)
Hundreds of thousands of people in England will spend this Christmas homeless: 'Out of control'
A McDonald's security guard soaking a homeless man's blanket exemplifies stigma rough sleepers face
![Homeless man argues with security guard mopping floor outside McDonald's restaurant in London](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/London-McDonalds-homeless-row-hero.jpg?w=768)
A McDonald's security guard soaking a homeless man's blanket exemplifies stigma rough sleepers face
Big Issue vendor’s emotional story of homelessness has starring role in Christmas film
![Big Issue vendor Alfie Brew](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Alfie-Brew-St-Petrocks.jpg?w=768)
Big Issue vendor’s emotional story of homelessness has starring role in Christmas film
One in four who go to councils for help with homelessness will be 'turned away' this Christmas
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One in four who go to councils for help with homelessness will be 'turned away' this Christmas
Vagrancy Act 2.0? The Criminal Justice Bill must not be allowed to make rough sleeping illegal
![Layla Moran on Criminal Justice Bill, Vagrancy Act and rough sleeping](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Layla_Moran_at_Brighton_2018.jpg?w=768)
Vagrancy Act 2.0? The Criminal Justice Bill must not be allowed to make rough sleeping illegal
'Hostile architecture' appears outside hospital where rough sleepers' tents were destroyed
![Rough sleepers' tents were removed and destroyed in Camden](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Camden-tents-hero.jpg?w=768)
'Hostile architecture' appears outside hospital where rough sleepers' tents were destroyed
'People's tents are being taken away': Charities condemn new powers to criminalise 'nuisance rough sleeping'
![rough sleepers risk being criminalised by the Vagrancy Act](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jon-tyson-6wOeGqQ-5f4-unsplash.jpg?w=768)
'People's tents are being taken away': Charities condemn new powers to criminalise 'nuisance rough sleeping'
Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
![prisoners sleeping rough](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/52580095353_f606a660e2_c-e1688035195386.jpg?w=768)
Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
Rough sleepers left 'scared and disgusted' after homeless tents destroyed near London hospital
![rough sleepers tents being destroyed Camden](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MicrosoftTeams-image-9.jpg?w=768)
Rough sleepers left 'scared and disgusted' after homeless tents destroyed near London hospital
There is always a choice between wedge politics and human decency. There is always another way
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There is always a choice between wedge politics and human decency. There is always another way
Rough sleepers have tents destroyed just days after Suella Braverman crackdown: 'This is disgusting'
![rough sleepers tents being destroyed Camden](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MicrosoftTeams-image-9.jpg?w=768)
Rough sleepers have tents destroyed just days after Suella Braverman crackdown: 'This is disgusting'
How Suella Braverman's callous tent crackdown has inspired people to tackle homelessness
![Suella Braverman](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/52577489295_7dd3a82cf9_6k.jpg?w=768)
How Suella Braverman's callous tent crackdown has inspired people to tackle homelessness
Suella Braverman's 'lifestyle choice' claim on homelessness is cavalier, wrong and straight-up ignorant
![Lord John Bird on Suella Braverman's comments regarding street homelessness as a lifestyle choice](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/pexels-brett-sayles-6960985.jpg?w=768)
Suella Braverman's 'lifestyle choice' claim on homelessness is cavalier, wrong and straight-up ignorant
Suella Braverman told tent crackdown will see people ‘dying on the streets’
![Suella Braverman has sparked a furious backlash](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/52507113567_8af367948b_k.jpg?w=768)