A kind-hearted mum invited homeless man move in with her and her kids – because she feared he would die in freezing conditions. Irina Zureiqi decided to help Darren Handley, who had been sleeping outside a former bingo hall, in Ashford, Kent, for almost two years after battling mental illness and alcohol addiction for most of […]
Homeless charities have warned that England is facing a “national emergency”, after it was revealed that the number of homeless people and rough sleepers admitted to hospitals has more than trebled over the last six years. Welfare Weekly reports analysis of NHS data by Mirror Online revealed that 10,259 homeless people in England were admitted to […]
The decision to fine a homeless man for failing to complete his tax return on time has been described as a scandal by a judge, who found he should not be penalised for missing the deadline. According to a report in The Guardian, Krzysztof Pokorowski, a self-employed electrician, faced penalties adding up to £1,600 after […]
43,000 people across Wales have been helped to avoid homelessness as councils make the most of additional funds to keep people in in their homes – rather than returning it to Westminster. Statistics from Shelter Cymru show every Welsh council is on track to spend its full amount of Discretionary Housing payment (DHP) funding. One […]
A man has been jailed for four months after admitting assaulting two homeless men in a tent in Hull. Jamie Nickell, 26, was filmed on CCTV taking a running jump and landing feet first on their tent on Whitefriargate in November. Nickell, of Goldsmith Walk, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to a single count of assault occasioning […]
Our good friends over at New Start are very proud and extremely excited to be working in close partnership with YMCA Liverpool & Sefton (YMCAL&S) to deliver a pathway of accommodation-based recovery services for the city of Liverpool. During 2018, Liverpool City Council undertook an exercise to procure a range of services to provide recovery […]
More than a million children are living in poverty in privately rented accommodation in England – an increase of almost 70% in the last decade. New research from the National Housing Federation (NHF) has found that almost half of all children living in rented homes live in poverty despite two-thirds of their families being in […]
A two per cent decrease in the number of rough-sleepers in the UK on a single night does not reflect the “severity” of the current homelessness crisis, which would be 40% worse without the work of churches and faith groups, charities have warned. A report from the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government counted 4677 rough-sleepers on […]
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have released their annual statistics about the number of people sleeping rough in England. This provides information on the single night snapshot of rough sleeping for autumn 2018. The snapshot is taken annually in England using street counts, evidence-based estimates, and estimates informed by spotlight street counts. Key […]
A concerned citizen has stepped in to save 70 homeless people from record-breaking cold temperatures in Chicago – by paying for their hotel rooms! The city, gripped by a polar vortex, was expected to be colder than Antarctica, Alaska and the North Pole as the wind chill plunged temperatures further to feel like -45C. The Chicago Tribune […]
