An NHS hospital worker said they have been threatened with eviction by a landlord who is scared he will catch coronavirus from tenants, a charity has said. The worker is
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Leading homelessness charities have written to the Prime Minister calling for those sleeping rough to be recognised as a vulnerable group as the coronavirus outbreak takes hold. Homeless people should
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More than a third of people who asked their local authority for help remained or became homeless due to a lack of affordable housing, a report suggests. Some 38% of
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A £236 million initiative aimed at helping get rough sleepers off the streets has been unveiled by the Prime Minister. As part of the move, Boris Johnson said that former
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The Duchess of Cambridge has praised a cafe run by homelessness charity Social Bite for “making a real difference”. Kate, known as the Countess of Strathearn while in Scotland, heard
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The solution to rough sleeping is simply providing enough affordable housing, a director at one of the UK’s largest homelessness charities has said. Speaking after collecting an MBE at Buckingham
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There has been a sharp rise in the number of deaths of people experiencing homelessness in Scotland, according to the latest figures published by National Records of Scotland. Experimental Statistics
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Housing benefit payments for young Universal Credit recipients are not enough to cover the average rent of a room in a shared house in almost all of England’s local authorities,
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Listen and learn were the watchwords for a new review which aims to transform how Scotland deals with the consequences of family breakdown, writes Ewan Aitken. On 5 February, the
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More than half of people think the Government should prioritise scrapping a law which makes rough sleeping illegal, according to a homeless charity. Crisis has described the Vagrancy Act, which
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