Joe Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, has told council officers, the police and homeless charities to take action against people who, he says, are travelling into the city from other areas to beg for money. He also wants to tackle the issue of people who already have homes or are refusing accommodation because they want […]

A homeless man was the victim of a nasty Cambridge University student who burned money to mock those sleeping rough. Student Ronald Coyne, of Pembroke College, sparked outrage across the country after being filmed burning a £20 note in front of a rough sleeper who asked him for help. The homeless man, Ryan Davies, a […]

A group of squatters has occupied an empty £15m London property owned by a Russian oligarch, Andrey Goncharenko, and opened it as a homeless shelter. The squatters – Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians, better known as ANAL – said they gained access to the building through an open window on the 23rd of January and […]

The Homelessness Reduction Bill has passed through the House of Commons last week. It will now move to the House of Lords for its first reading on the 24 February 2017. As we reported last month, the new Bill places a duty on local authorities to help prevent the homelessness of all families and single people, […]

A quarter of the homeless people in Liverpool have nowhere to live because they are victims of domestic abuse, according to a local charity. Jacqui Nasuh, founder of the Merseyside Domestic Violence Service, told the Liverpool Echo: “On average a women will be abused 38 times before they report domestic violence. The biggest problem with […]