Two homeless people who had been trying to keep warm in freezing conditions have died after a fire ripped through a building in Manchester’s Chinatown. It is thought that the two men were homeless and may have lit a fire to keep warm. The huge fire began at about 2.15am and, at its peak, the […]

When he was a teenager, Simon Whitter spent years homeless on the streets of Manchester. Now a successful businessman, he is putting on Xmas Day dinner parties across Liverpool for more than 1,000 homeless people. Last year Simon laid on Xmas dinner for 100 homeless people at the Courtroom Cafe in Victoria Street. This year […]

Councils in Britain have spent more than £3.5bn on temporary accommodation for homeless families in the last five years, data obtained by the BBC shows. In that time the annual cost has risen 43%, with councils spending £851m on temporary housing in 2015 alone. Homeless charity Crisis said the number of people in temporary accommodation […]

According to housing charity Shelter, around 120,000 children will be homeless this Christmas. But you probably won’t see these children on the streets. Most of them – and their families – will have to find emergency temporary accommodation in hostels or bedsits. But what should you do if you do see a young person sleeping […]

It will be a bleak Xmas this year for over 120,000 children in Britain who will be made homeless or have to live in temporary accommodation. An analysis of government figures by Shelter, the homelessness charity, found the number of families living in emergency B&B and hostel rooms has risen by 18% in just one […]