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A street of Victorain terraced housing in varying styles, with houses and cars lining both sides of the street. One house has scaffolding on it, and the sky is blue with lots of clouds.

Interview with Ben, policy officer at ACORN the union

By Emma Roy-Williams | 6 August 2024Features

Our reporter Emma spoke with Ben, a policy officer at ACORN the union, to find out more about ACORN’s work and what the future might hold for renters now that we have a new government.

A street in Gorton, flanked on both sides by two-up, two-down terraced houses.

Revealed: The company paid millions in public money for providing temporary accommodation in Manchester

By Conrad Bower, Alex King | 14 July 2022News

A single company received £4.59m from Manchester city council for providing temporary accommodation for homeless households in the 2020-21 financial year, a freedom of information request submitted by the Meteor to the council shows.

The book - No Fixed Abode: life and death amongst the UK’s forgotten homeless - on a sleeping bag

Reversing society’s dehumanisation of the homeless, McClenaghan brings to life the hundreds of homeless dying on our streets every year

By Conrad Bower | 18 October 2020Culture

An early and lonely death is the ultimate fate for many at the sharpest end of the housing and homelessness crisis. Maeve McClenaghan’s No Fixed Abode documents how the first count of homeless deaths in the UK was created and brings to life the stories of those that died.

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