John Healey: Osborne has ducked hard truths on homelessness
After five years of failure on housing, the Budget was a huge let-down. Under Conservative Ministers,…
Homelessness
Labour must fight the criminalisation of homelessness
Over the last year homelessness has soared by a staggering 30 per cent. Within the last five…
Corbyn takes on Thatcher over homelessness in unearthed Commons footage
Jeremy Corbyn first became MP for Islington North at the 1983 General Election, when Margaret Thatcher was at…
Why we’ve launched ‘The Labour Campaign to End Homelessness’
This article is written by Sam Stopp and Dr Martin Edobor The last Labour government achieved a great deal…
New figures show rough sleeping has risen by 55% since Labour left office
The number of homeless people sleeping on the streets has risen by almost a thousand since David Cameron…
Did Boris Johnson mislead the public over plans to “end rough sleeping”?
In 2008 Boris Johnson made a bold pledge to end rough sleeping in London by the end of…
800% rise in families living in B&Bs – Media and blog round up: February 18th 2013
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A huge rise in homelessness is on the way – thanks to ‘dividing lines’ on welfare
The Government’s welfare reforms have been hailed as the “greatest since Beveridge” by Iain Duncan Smith. But a…
A 21st century scandal
There is no more visible and tragic sign of the failure of housing policy than people sleeping rough…
The other side of snow
Last night, people died on our streets. It’s impossible to believe otherwise. A thick layer of snow added…
