News and Updates
May 22, 2025
From Jet Engines to Homelessness: Using Virtual Labs to Rethink Homelessness Interventions
Professor Patrick Fowler is using a virtual laboratory, originally inspired by jet engine testing, to model England’s homelessness system, helping policymakers understand how different interventions could improve outcomes and prevent rough sleeping.
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May 16, 2025
Reimagining the future: catalysing a prevention turn
The old ways of working, which are reactive, fragmented, crisis-driven, are proving even less sufficient than before, argues Ligia Teixeira. Our next chapter must be to catalyse a decisive shift away from responding to homelessness and towards prevention
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May 15, 2025
Comparative Optimism and Why it Matters in Tackling Homelessness
Our colleague Emily-Rae highlights the UK’s comparatively progressive homelessness policies, emphasising the power of optimism in combating burnout and driving reform. She argues that evidence-based hope is essential to sustaining frontline workers and implementing systemic change.
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May 14, 2025
Hotel Homeless: The Scouse single mums trapped in Liverpool's housing crisis
This article by Liam Thorpe, Political Editor for the Liverpool Echo and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, reports on mothers experiencing homelessness, living in limbo in a city hotel.
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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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