I have been a volunteer with Crisis UK in Birmingham since February 2017. I am very impressed with their research and campaigning to end homelessness in the UK. They have a fantastic learning programme to help ‘members’ (our term for homeless individuals) get off the street, out of hostels, B&B’s, sofa surfing, stop sleeping in cars and other places and back into employment and a decent house to live in.

I am creating this blog post with a series of links to reports and resources to assist anyone to understand homelessness better. This way I can just share this link and you can learn more by downloading the reports or listen to the radio programmes, watch the videos etc.

I hope the resources will prove useful for you and your friends and family to better understand the plight of the homeless and maybe you can share a few minutes to create awareness in your network and community, donate a few pennies, spend a few hours per month donating your time for the many charities that exist across the UK. I appreciate your interest and curiosity to learn more. I will continue to add further resources as I become aware of them, so make sure to bookmark this page.

1. 10 year plan to end homelessness in the UK executive summary
2. 10 year plan to end homelessness full report
3. Rough sleepers’ experiences of violence and abuse on the streets of England and Wales
4. An examination of the scale and impact of enforcement interventions on street homeless people in England and Wales
5. The creation and use of better evidence for a world without homelessness — Centre for Homelessness Impact

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Michael de Groot