Comment 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… Rida Vaquas 21st November, 2019, 6:36 pm
Comment 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… Catriona Gray 24th September, 2019, 7:02 pm
Daily email “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… Tom Copley 26th April, 2019, 10:52 am
Comment 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… Tom Copley 21st April, 2019, 8:59 am
Comment 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… Neil Coyle 13th February, 2019, 11:30 am
Comment 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… Shaista Aziz 18th December, 2018, 2:56 pm
Comment 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… James Calmus 29th November, 2018, 1:25 pm
Comment 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 10th October, 2018, 7:30 am
Comment 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 14th August, 2018, 6:34 pm
Comment 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… Melanie Onn 24th July, 2018, 9:35 am