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Orwell Prize

May 25, 2024

‘A lot of people still think homelessness is a choice. It’s not. It’s desperation’

Unheard Voices, a group of community reporters living in Greater Manchester, has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness

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Orwell Prize

May 25, 2024

'Solving our dire homes crisis will be the key to getting into No10 - it starts with social housing'

This article by housing campaigner and guest columnist, Kwajo Tweneboa, discusses what political parties need to do to solve the housing crisis and is one of Kwajo’s shortlisted pieces for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness

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Orwell Prize

May 25, 2024

A single parent flat-hunting on Universal Credit - London, 2023

This piece of new writing by Hannah Silva, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, captures conversations with her child after their landlord sells up

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Orwell Prize

May 25, 2024

Homelessness soars in wake of increasing evictions by landlords

This article by Liam Thorp, Political Editor for the Liverpool Echo and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, looks at the structural causes behind a spike in homelessness in the City

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Orwell Prize

May 25, 2024

NHS patients sent from hospital to the street

This article by Holly Bancroft, Social Affairs Correspondent at The Independent and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Hopelessness, looks at how patients are discharged from hospital and into homelessness

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news

May 14, 2024

‍Open call to join the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) Peer Review Panel

CHI is seeking to recruit a diverse group of individuals who, we anticipate, will have a wide range of interests and expertise in the evaluation of housing and homelessness programmes and interventions. We are looking to appoint independent anonymous peer reviewers to provide additional scrutiny and support to independent evaluators working on rigorous evaluation of the implementation, process, cost and impact of interventions, programmes and policies.

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blog

Ending homelessness for everyone, not just those we count

Heather McCluskey, our Implementation Lead reports back from a mutual learning event organised by EuroCities focusing on women’s and LGBTQ+ experiences of homelessness in Dusseldorf. She finds hope in new, inclusive ways of counting and measuring homelessness.

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news

March 21, 2024

CHI appoints three new trustees

Three new members have been appointed to CHI's board of trustees

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