As Liverpool continues to struggle with explosion in homelessness a young mum and her children are just trying to survive, reports the Liverpool Echo. In a cramped, cluttered hotel room in Liverpool city centre, Abbie Coulthard is returning home with her children. The 31-year-old mum has just come back from picking up her eight-year-old son […]
Labour will finally tear up “shameful” 200 year old laws criminalising rough sleepers, reports the Mirror. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced she will abolish the Vagrancy Act, which makes rough sleeping illegal in England and Wales. The 1824 legislation has long been criticised by homelessness charities, and the move has been branded a […]
Ahead of the Spending Review on 11 June, leading economist Ann Pettifor wrote an op–ed for Shelter on why major government investment is needed to address the housing emergency. England is facing the worst housing emergency since the Second World War. The number of children in temporary accommodation has reached yet another record of 165,500, […]
Research conducted by King’s College London underpins new Centre for Homelessness Impact report and guidance, highlighting how mindful use of everyday language can support efforts to end homelessness. The report, published by the Centre for Homelessness Impact, analyses how language and communication reinforce stigma associated with homelessness and offers evidence-based ways to write about or […]
Supported housing exists to help people to live as independently as possible, helping improve their quality of life, their wellbeing, their health, and their employment prospects. Yet people in supported housing face a specific barrier and disincentive to work due to the way the welfare system is configured. Whereas people in receipt of benefits in […]
A wheel of Double Gloucester won in the annual traditional cheese rolling races in Gloucestershire is to be served up to rough sleepers in north London, reports the BBC. First-timer Ava Sender Logan, 20, managed to bag the 7lb (3kg) cheese in the women’s race last month by tumbling down the almost vertical Cooper’s Hill […]
Hundreds of people on a Kirkby housing estate are being made homeless after two tower blocks were declared ‘unsafe’ by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS), reports the Liverpool Echo. The Echo has seen a Knowsley Council letter sent to 160 households at Willow Rise and Beech Rise confirming they will have to permanently vacate […]
Planned benefit cuts designed to get people back into work will actually drive them into homelessness, reports the Big Issue. In March, the Department for Work and Pensions released its Pathways to Work green paper, proposing sweeping cuts to disability benefits. The measures – described by campaigners as “incredibly dangerous”, “cruel” and “catastrophic” – include limiting […]
Almost half of adults fear an unexpected £100 bill would leave them struggling to pay their rent or mortgage, reports the Mirror. A survey for the Salvation Army found 48% of people were extremely or very concerned over an extra expense. A further 22% of the 1,000 people polled said they were “fairly concerned” while […]
He complained to the ombudsman about how he had been treated, reports the Liverpool Echo. Liverpool Council told a man facing mental health difficulties he would be “intentionally homeless” if he left accommodation he had advised them he could no longer stay in. In 2023, a man referred to only as Mr X approached the […]
