One man said “I can’t even go to the toilet without fear of having my tent taken”, reports the Liverpool Echo. People sleeping rough on the streets of Liverpool woke this morning to find notices pinned to their tents ordering them to move on, or pay the costs. The letters, from the Highways Department at […]
The Labour government may have promised change but the numbers are going in the wrong direction, reports the Liverpool Echo. Child poverty and child homelessness is rising – with worrying new numbers showing the scale of the problems facing youngsters in our region. While the new Labour government has pledged to address these critical issues, […]
The government spent nearly a third less on hotels to house asylum seekers between April 2024 and March 2025, reports the BBC. The Home Office’s annual accounts show £2.1bn was spent on hotel accommodation – an average of about £5.77m per day, down from £3bn or £8.3m per day, the previous year. Data obtained by […]
Councils are piloting ways to tackle the cost of housing a record number of homeless families while we wait for a new strategy from the government, reports The Lead. There are a record number of homeless households now living in temporary accommodation in England, often in unsuitable hotels or B&Bs, and the spiralling cost of […]
MP says police force’s response ‘disappointing’ and reasoning ‘raises serious questions’, reports the Big Issue. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) says it refuses to give its officers the choice to carry naloxone – a drug which can reverse opioid overdoses – because of objections over whether it has really saved lives and a belief officers would […]
A Kent woman who took part in a trial where people supported by homeless charities are given a substantial sum of money to spend as they wish said the funds helped her reconnect with her children, reports the BBC. The Centre for Homelessness Impact is leading the research into the effect of granting participants a […]
More than 1,100 people are currently living in B&Bs and hotels across the city with nowhere permanent to call home, reports the Liverpool Echo. Houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) could be used by Liverpool Council to address its continuing homelessness crisis. With an “unprecedented demand” on housing services across the city, the local authority is […]
Black people are also less likely than white people to get social housing and can face ‘overt racism’ from private landlords, reports The Guardian. Black people in England are almost four times as likely to face homelessness as white people and substantially less likely to get social housing, according to the first major study into […]
Amnesty warns DWP’s use of AI and automation in welfare is harming disabled people and digitally excluded claimants, reports the Big Issue. Disabled people, the homeless, low-income families and those with limited digital access are being “trapped in bureaucratic limbo” by the UK government’s “unhealthy obsession” with artificial intelligence (AI), a new report has warned. Amnesty […]
There are more than ten times as many women sleeping rough than are identified through official government ‘snapshot’ counts, reports Drink and Drug News. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government snapshots fail to classify women sleeping in places like public transport or A&E departments as rough sleeping, says How do we sleep at night? – […]
