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Westminster Spending Over £2m On Hotels For Homeless Families

Cuts and housing shortage means bill is more than housing benefit.

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Londonist Underground: Homeless By The Tube

Another original painting in our ongoing series.

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New Shoreditch Hotel To Employ Homeless

Sister to the Hoxton Hotel will offer training and long-term prospects to get people off the streets.

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Liberty Serves Up Cream Of Conscience To Council

Human rights campaign over ban on soup runs comes to Westminster’s door.

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Street Art: Take Home A Homeless Person

New street art, depicting the homeless, is appearing around London. The artist wants you to peel it off the wall and…give it a home.

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Guided Walks By Homeless Londoners

They might be more likely to sport a blue bag than a blue badge, but London’s homeless population certainly have a unique understanding of the capital. As part of the London Fringe Festival, a number of rough sleepers will be hosting guided walks around the …

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Have You Seen These Chalk Symbols On The Streets Of London?

The above code was developed in 2007 by Emily Read in conjunction with charitable magazine The Pavement as a means for homeless people to ‘review’ amenities and share their experiences with other rough sleepers. The code is printed inside each issue of The Pavement, which …

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No More Sleeping On The 25

Image by Doilum from the Londonist Flickr pool We’ve all fallen asleep on the night bus and ended up stuck at the end of the route (haven’t we?) but if you don’t have a home to (eventually) go to, the night bus can seem a …

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Modernist Hostel Offers Hope For Homeless

Instead of brawling with architects over designs he doesn’t like, perhaps Prince Charles would like to use his clout in favour of buildings like this? It’s the new St Mungo’s homeless hostel in Hither Green, which replaces a dingy old one that the architect Peter …

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In Dulce Jubilee

The story may have broken a little late for Christmas, but glad tidings reach us from (Three?) Kingsbury, where a heavily pregnant Jubilee Line passenger went into labour on 19th December. Station staff couldn’t quite rustle up a manger, but instead ushered Julia Kowalska into …

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Housing shortage? What housing shortage?

The housing market in London has seen a slow but steady decline in the last year. But while values tank and even bargain hunters are feeling cash-strapped, a bigger problem lies in the nearly 85,000 homes that are lying empty. The Empty Homes Agency reports …