Housing benefit cuts have led to a 10% increase in people from low-income households reporting mental health problems, says an influential report. It has also propelled an additional 26,000 people into depression, researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have […]
Fast-food chain McDonalds have launched a new competition where certain menu items come with game tickets – some of which lead to instant wins or vouchers that customers can use to redeem free food. But one enterprising man has started a craze on Facebook of redeeming the food and giving it to homeless people. Matt […]
A new report into the deaths of homeless people in Dublin concludes that the average age of death among those living on the streets is 42 years. Among homeless women, the mean age of death is even lower, at just 38. Among homeless men, the mean age of death is 44. Of 140 deaths among […]
The experience of Liverpool’s homeless people at the hands of Chief Superintendent Mark Wiggins and his unique approach to policing is raising more than a few eyebrows, writes Francis McMenamin in The Big Issue North. But the Chief Superintendent’s scheme, that allows officers to issue on-the-spot yellow and red cards to homeless people adjudged to […]
A new funding model for the provision of supported housing (which includes women’s refuges, homeless shelters and housing for those leaving care) has been outlined by the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP). Supported housing will continue to be exempt from the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap until 2019. From then the new funding model […]
Up to 80,000 families face the prospect of becoming homeless by 2020, it has been claimed. With homelessness having increased by 54% since 2010, John Healey, former shadow housing minister, has published his projections for the next five years. In doing so, he hopes to persuade the Prime Minister, Theresa May, to abandon cuts to […]
The Seattle Heroin Task Force, formed by Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine, has endorsed the creation of safe-consumption sites for injectors, which would be a first in the U.S. A majority of the task-force members support a place where drugs can be injected safely rather than public toilets, alleys or homeless […]
At the front of their Bold Street ‘concept’ shop, the staff at REX has installed a ‘Pay As You Feel’ breakfast café, with donations going to help Liverpool Homeless FC. With tea, coffee and a selection of cereals available to choose from, all that is asked is that you consider a donation to LHFC. The Independent Liverpool website says that ‘REX: The […]
We like a story with a happy ending. So, when a homeless woman who was dismissed as “crazy” finally proved that she really was owed more than £75,000 by the US government, cheers broke out here at SSHG headquarters. Apparently, Wanda Witter, who is 80 years old, lived on the streets for 12 years, dragging […]
The bee colony at Bosco House arrived two weeks ago and the first check on their progress took place yesterday. They are settling in nicely in their new home and are perfectly happy buzzing around the Bosco garden! Under the watchful eye of bee expert Andrea Ku, garden volunteers Alan, Linda and Paul were shown […]
