Voicebox: Homelessness

Many councils and the government have begun huge campaigns to supposedly ‘crackdown’ on the homeless and eliminate homelessness from this country. What is the human cost?

London has a housing crisis, yet every new-build housing development that goes up treats addressing the situation as an afterthought.

Jim talks about his 23 years at The Big Issue, its growth and expansion, and his views on eradicating homelessness

A way to change homelessness for good, together

My three hours of volunteering left me feeling warm and fulfilled - did I do it for myself or to actually help others?

In the UK homelessness is an ongoing issue with 64,960 homeless assessments being made between April and June 2018, so to reduce the number of the homeless Crisis, a national charity for homeless people, are tackling the issue with help from volunteers, campaigners and the wider public. By supporting Crisis someone can leave homelessness for good.  

Society's outdated and flawed notion of choice correlating to consequence needs to be radically overhauled

“These days I have a lot more to lose.”

We use the term homeless to describe those we see sleeping rough on the streets. Homelessness is a bigger issue than what we understand and the road to homelessness is not as simple as some of us might think.

19-year-old Georgia shares her experience of being homeless in the most expensive city in the UK.