Our manifesto sends a message: Labour is on the side of homeless people
A home should be a human right, yet our country, the sixth richest nation in the world, treats…
Homelessness
Why Labour must offer a radical response to the homelessness crisis
The next Labour government will inherit a national homelessness crisis, and delegates at annual conference will tomorrow determine…
“An ever-growing housing crisis” – Tom Copley’s guest edit
The home is at the centre of people’s lives. The condition and the affordability of housing has a…
Ending no-fault evictions is welcome – but the government must go further to drive down homelessness
Over the last decade, the number of rough sleepers in London has more than doubled. Between 2013 and…
A rough sleeping reduction target? It’ll be missed by 30 years at this rate
The government has a target to halve rough sleeping by 2022. There were an estimated 4,751 people sleeping rough last…
Why we’re launching the Labour Homelessness Campaign
Over the past year, I’ve met many people experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness across the country and here…
A rough sleeping map: visualising austerity across England
Following the release of Shelter’s report on homelessness last week, I’ve developed a tool to visualise publicly available…
Melanie Onn: It’s time to end no-fault evictions – now the leading cause of homelessness
The dramatic rise in the use of Section 21 evictions – where tenants are evicted through no fault…
Melanie Onn: Three housing policies I’d like the Tories to steal from Labour
The number of rough sleepers is a national disgrace. Rough sleeping has nearly trebled since the Conservatives took…
Melanie Onn: Most homeless families are in work. This is a broken system
We now live in a country where more than half of the families who don’t have a home to…
