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Protesters Rally in Brooklyn Over Jordan Neely’s Killing

New York reckons with the murder of Jordan Neely

‘When a human being with a mental illness is brutally murdered in a subway car full of people, it’s a pretty low bar to expect that there would be some legal consequences for the attacker’

May 05, 2023

James Greig

The Museum of Homelessness vigil, March 2022

Over 1,300 people died while homeless in the UK last year

Research from The Dying Homeless Project found that there has been 85 per cent rise in deaths since 2019

Apr 20, 2023

James Greig

What does leaving the city have to do with the end of the world?

In the UK and elsewhere, people have been leaving urban centres for greener pastures – but how can we carve out spatial equality in the post-COVID city?

Apr 20, 2021

Nadia Idle

Film & TV

The film using dance to highlight youth homelessness during lockdown

As lockdown measures relax in the UK, homeless young people remain in crisis – watch 50 London-based dancers perform in Saam Farahmand’s moving short film, shot in May, for Centrepoint

Film & TV

Jun 19, 2020

Thom Waite

Sofia Bryant

I want to fund visual and performing arts classes at an agency providing food and shelter for homeless youth

Apr 28, 2020

Nick Chen

Myha’la Herrold

In light of coronavirus, I would donate funds to a foodbank network like Feeding America

Apr 28, 2020

Nick Chen

Jaden Smith launches a pop-up food truck for the homeless in LA

The I Love You Restaurant supplies ‘healthy vegan food for free’

Jul 08, 2019

Günseli Yalcinkaya

How artists are using mattresses to tackle homelessness

Kate Moross, Camille Walala and others have teamed up with Simba Sleep to raise funds for UK charity Crisis

Dec 06, 2016

Dominique Sisley

The film exposing the reality of the UK’s housing crisis

Daisy-May Hudson’s Halfway offers a personal look at the country’s ‘hidden homeless’ community

Dec 02, 2016

Bec Evans

What’s it like to be pregnant and homeless?

Homeless people are often invisible neighbours: their plight is relentless, and most worryingly, silent. Here is the story of one couple riling against Nashville’s major crisis

Oct 28, 2016

Anna Cafolla

Photography

Decorating your home on the streets of Los Angeles

Photographer Désirée van Hoek has been photographing Sunset Boulevard and Skid Row for nine years, here she shares an unseen image of where it all began

Photography

Mar 22, 2016

Amy Newson

This tech bro wants to see homeless people ‘vanish’

In an open letter to San Francisco’s mayor, Justin Keller described homeless people as ‘riff-raff’ and said that ‘wealthy people’ shouldn’t have to see their ‘pain’