The chair of house building firm Persimmon has resigned over his role in orchestrating a £100m-plus bonus for the company’s chief executive. According to a report in The Guardian, Nicholas Wrigley, the company’s chair and a former banker, said he regretted not capping the company’s bonus scheme and was leaving “in recognition of this omission”. […]
Homelessness is now a serious risk for working families with stable jobs who cannot find somewhere affordable to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords seeking higher rents. The local government ombudsman, Michael King, said nurses, taxi drivers, hospitality staff and council workers were among those assisted by his office after being made homeless and […]
A Home Office policy to deport rough sleepers from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) has been ruled unlawful by the high court. Since 2016 the Home Office has designated rough sleeping as an abuse of EU free movement rights in its administrative removal policy. However, the court ruled that the Home Office’s position was […]
Syrian refugees make waffles and crepes and distribute them to the homeless in Liverpool. Abd al Rahman Safi, or ‘Safi’ as his friends know him, was shocked after finding a man shivering outside his new chocolate shop ‘Sweet & Cheese’ in Old Swan, when locking up one cold night last week. So much so that […]
Fire stations in Manchester open their doors to homeless people as the temperature drops below freezing. Common areas have been turned into temporary shelters in two emergency services centres to help house more rough sleepers in the city during the sub-zero conditions. Manchester Central and Ashton stations have converted areas in their buildings into living spaces […]
Liverpool’s emergency shelter for rough sleepers opened last week as temperatures across the city plummeted. The cold weather shelter, operated by the Whitechapel Centre is open from 8pm. The new centre is provided by Liverpool City Council and is based in Camden Street, off London Road, in what was a former dance studio. The previous shelter, at St […]
It was reported last week that Stoke-on-Trent council was planning to fine rough sleepers up to £1,000 but, after an outcry, they have now seen sense and reversed the decision. Will Morris, the director of homeless support charity House of Bread, said: “Threatening people with fines is just mad. If it wasn’t serious it would […]
A vending machine offering food and toiletries to homeless people has launched in the UK in time for Xmas. The machine will offer fresh fruit, sanitary towels, sandwiches, energy bars and socks to 100 people living in hostels and on the streets. Operating 24 hours a day, the machine, located outside the Broadmarsh shopping centre, in Nottingham, […]
Rough sleepers in Manchester will have the chance to start a new life off the streets in a £1.8m scheme that is to be agreed between private funders, housing providers, and the public and voluntary sectors. According to 24Housing, the newly-established Greater Manchester Homes Partnership will work with ‘entrenched rough sleepers’ – people who have regularly […]
Shelter, one of Britain’s biggest housing charities, anticipates soaring demand as the housing crisis “spirals out of control”. New figures reveal Shelter received a call for help every 22 seconds in the run-up to Christmas last year, and the charity is warning that the situation this winter is set to get worse. The helpline received […]
