Tag: homelessness

7 November 2017

New figures seen by The Canary have revealed a large rise in the number of people living on the streets ...

London police are left bemused after people hand themselves in for ‘possession and supply’ of tents [IMAGES]

22 October 2017

Police officers in London were left bemused on Saturday 21 October, as people turned up to hand themselves in. Their ...

Police have been accused of ‘barbaric’ behaviour as people’s only homes are destroyed [TWEETS]

16 October 2017

Campaigners have accused police and a local council of "barbaric" behaviour, amid allegations they are "destroying" people's homes. A 'last ...

A crisis of the Tories’ own making is turning into a catastrophe. But people are refusing to act.

10 October 2017

Nearly one in five people are "ignoring" a crisis in the UK; one that's been building for years but is ...

A man pleading to be jailed so he can ‘spend his birthday somewhere warm’ sums up the Tories’ homelessness crisis

1 October 2017

A homeless man living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) turned up to a court appearance a day early to plead ...

London’s ‘hidden homeless’ outnumber those on the streets by 13 to 1. And LGBTQ+ people are being hit hardest.

by Glen Black

29 September 2017

The London Assembly has reported there are “thirteen times more hidden homeless” in the capital city than people sleeping on the ...

British police forces have been arresting children as young as 12 using a 193-year-old law

23 September 2017

Freedom of Information requests (FOI) have revealed that a UK police force has been arresting children as young as 12 under ...

The government’s shameful track record has just been exposed in the most damaging way possible

13 September 2017

The Conservative government's appalling track record has just been put into stark context by a new report that exposes the ...

A top law firm has just revealed the damning truth about the Tory-made crisis in our military

21 August 2017

A law firm has responded to a Mirror investigation into the "staffing meltdown" facing the UK military. And it has ...

Operation Prosecco shows just how desperate, and out of touch, Theresa May really is

by Fréa Lockley

21 August 2017

In a bid to woo Tories after the general election disaster on 8 June 2017, Theresa May invited MPs to ...

Thousands of people are being driven into homelessness thanks to Tory rule

by Glen Black

17 August 2017

Crisis recently revealed that 9,100 people are sleeping on the streets of Britain at any one time, and that nearly a ...

The most liberal state in America has built its own Trump Wall. To keep homeless people out. [VIDEO]

by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

19 June 2022

Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall with Mexico rightly gained international outcry. But one of the country's most ...

Home Office Immigration Enforcement deportations

These posters cropping up around the capital will have the Home Office hopping mad [TWEETS]

by Sophia Akram

Posters that are cropping up in London are likely to annoy the Home Office. This is because they raise awareness ...

Over 120,000 children have been failed by Sajid Javid. He should hang his head in shame

The Local Government Association (LGA) has released its latest figures on homeless families in England. It has recorded a massive ...

The boss of a homeless charity has been jailed. And what he did was nothing short of despicable.

The former head of a homeless charity has been jailed for five years by a court in Wales. But his ...

The Finsbury Park vigil showed Britain at its best [VIDEO]

by JJ James

Hundreds of people attended a vigil at Finsbury Park in the wake of another terrorist attack in Britain. Among those ...

A Grenfell survivor tells The Canary how he fears the council will make him homeless [VIDEO]

by Sophia Akram