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Housing

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

When temperatures soar, people sleeping on the streets are at risk of dehydration and sunstroke. Here’s how you can help.
Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’

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Labour could build 500,000 social homes ‘at a stretch’ with £39bn affordable housing pledge
Social housing

Labour could build 500,000 social homes ‘at a stretch’ with £39bn affordable housing pledge

Labour told to set out how many social homes it will build with £39bn spending review pledge
Social housing

Labour told to set out how many social homes it will build with £39bn spending review pledge

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Homelessness

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness
a homeless person on the street
John Perry

Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives
a man holding naloxone which can prevent drug overdoses
Drugs

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: ‘People don’t know their rights’
Law

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: ‘People don’t know their rights’

Renting

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Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it
Trussell campaigner Amie Alissa Watson
Amie Alissa Watson

Having to go to a food bank sticks with you – it’s time politicians knew about it

Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla
a renter holding a set of keys on the stairs of a home
RENTING

Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla

Rough sleeping

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives
a man holding naloxone which can prevent drug overdoses
Drugs

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples’ lives

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of ‘cruel’ 200-year law
Vagrancy Act continues to punish rough sleepers
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of ‘cruel’ 200-year law

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around
Prince William, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and Wayne
Homelessness

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around

Housing advice

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers
Harleen Nottay presenter of UNTOLD, SCAMMED: BRITAIN’S RENTAL RIP OFF
RENTING

I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather
Nicholas, in Liverpool, is wearing a grey beanie and coat with lots of layers under it
Homelessness

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Understanding the issues

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless
Renters Jules Zakolska and her partner are facing a no-fault eviction in Lambeth
Renting

Renters fail in bid to stop council from making them homeless to house people already homeless

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’
Renters from the Acorn Norwich branch confront a landlord in protest at a landlord conference
RENTING

Fury over secret recording of landlords joking about using renters as ‘target practice’

Labour could build 500,000 social homes ‘at a stretch’ with £39bn affordable housing pledge
Labour's Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves
Social housing

Labour could build 500,000 social homes ‘at a stretch’ with £39bn affordable housing pledge

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