The Simon Community has been working since 1963 to alleviate the isolation of people sleeping rough, provide a place where they can gain a sense of belonging and foster the skills they need to move to...

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Boroughs highlight a growing mismatch between temporary accommodation costs and the subsidy received for this from the government.

The number of homeless Londoners needing temporary accommodation has reached the highest level recorded.

Homelessness them debate becomes ‘platform for self-congratulation’

Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024

In 1834, 30,000 people rallied at Copenhagen Fields, Islington, to protest the sentences on the Tolpuddle Martyrs: six Dorset farm labourers sentenced to be transported to the penal colonies for se…

The local authority was also ordered by the Housing Ombudsman to pay over £1,000 in compensation

Charities condemn ‘national scandal’ and call for pledge to build 90,000 social homes a year to meet demand The wait for family-size social housing has risen to more than 100 years in parts of England, which charities have condemned as “ludicrous” and a “national scandal”. Analysis from the National Housing Federation (NHF), Crisis and Shelter found that in 32 local authority areas across England, the wait for a home with at least three bedrooms was longer than 18 years – the duration of an entire childhood. Continue reading...