News and Updates
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May 14, 2025
How many toddlers and babies are living in temporary accommodation in the UK?
This article by Katharine Swindells, Deputy Features Editor for Inside Housing and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, reports on the numbers of children living in temporary accommodation in the UK.
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May 14, 2025
My child and I are homeless. But I'm banned from social housing because of debt
This article by Vicky Spratt, Housing Correspondent for The i Paper and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, reports on the little-known rule which leaves people with debt barred from social housing.
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May 14, 2025
Hidden homeless scandal as nearly double the number of women sleep rough than official stats
This article by Simon Murphy, Senior News Reporter at the Mirror and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, was part of a special investigation on homelessness.
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May 14, 2025
The Escape Rooms
Daniel Hewitt, David Williams and Imogen Barrer, have been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness for their ITV News documentary podcast, The Trapped.
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May 14, 2025
Rough: The stories behind London’s homelessness crisis
This project by Callum Cuddeford, Facundo Arrizabalaga, Adrian Zorzut, Jake Holden, Harrison Galliven and Adam Toms has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. The project uses images and videos to bring to life the real stories of people experiencing homelessness. Here we share Ground Zero by Jake Holden.
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May 14, 2025
Winter Appeal: ‘I was told I could stay in the UK — then kicked out of my asylum accommodation’
This article by David Cohen, Investigations and Campaigns Editor at The London Standard, has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, was part of a campaign with Comic Relief to turn the spotlight on an official policy that’s making newly recognised refugees homeless.
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May 14, 2025
Cruel summer: exclusive - Edinburgh’s homeless forced from hotels as Taylor Swift comes to town
This article by Niall Christie, for Third Force News (TFN), has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. Niall’s article was the catalyst for a number of articles across Scotland which raised awareness of the issue.
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May 14, 2025
The inside story of how Tony Blair's New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping
This article by Greg Barradale, Senior Report for The Big Issue has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. Greg speaks to the key players in the last Labour government to find out how they almost got rid of rough sleeping.
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