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