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Councils buy back £34m of ex-Right to Buy homes for over 3x sale price in 'economic madness'
housing secretary Steve Reed with a red line over his face next to a block of flats
Yo-yo Homes

Councils buy back £34m of ex-Right to Buy homes for over 3x sale price in 'economic madness'

Big Issue discovers fate of 445 council homes sold under Right to Buy for £35.7m, then repurchased for nearly £100m, as taxpayers lose out on Yo-yo Homes
We're Going on a Bear Hunt creators reunite to tell new, exclusive Christmas tale for Big Issue
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, photographed by Debra Hurness-Brown
Christmas

We're Going on a Bear Hunt creators reunite to tell new, exclusive Christmas tale for Big Issue

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?
Sadiq Khan serves dinner
Child poverty

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Big Issue vendors' dogs to be kitted out with their own iconic red tabards
Dogs

Big Issue vendors' dogs to be kitted out with their own iconic red tabards

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Revealed: MPs rack up huge taxpayer-funded rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
Exclusive

Revealed: MPs rack up huge taxpayer-funded rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

How to volunteer at a food bank
volunteers arrange food donations along rows of crates on tables
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year
Christmas dinner
Christmas

Where to get a free Christmas dinner in your community this year

Labour council blocks bid to reveal extent of Yo-yo Home losses: 'Why would they try and hide this?'
The mayor of Swindon
Yo-yo Homes

Labour council blocks bid to reveal extent of Yo-yo Home losses: 'Why would they try and hide this?'

Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress
a homeless man pictured in his temporary accommodation
Homelessness

Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress

How Reeves' autumn budget dealt a brutal blow to Labour's 1.5 million new homes pledge
housing secretary Steve Reed in hard hat and high vis
Housebuilding

How Reeves' autumn budget dealt a brutal blow to Labour's 1.5 million new homes pledge

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Benefit fraud

Rachel Reeves cracks down on benefit fraud. How much could she really save – and at what cost?

Rachel Reeves unveils new 'mansion tax' on £2 million homes. But does it go far enough?
A mansion
Mansion tax

Rachel Reeves unveils new 'mansion tax' on £2 million homes. But does it go far enough?

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?
Autumn budget

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?

Labour's choice to freeze local housing allowance will 'condemn thousands to another grim winter'
house keys
Renting

Labour's choice to freeze local housing allowance will 'condemn thousands to another grim winter'

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves' autumn budget means for your money
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her 2025 autumn budget
Autumn budget

Two-child benefit cap axed and wage hikes: What Rachel Reeves' autumn budget means for your money

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty
Autumn budget

'Landmark moment': Rachel Reeves scraps two-child limit to lift 350,000 kids out of poverty

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills
Ferndale Rise in Cambridge before and after renovation
Housing

This 1930s three-bedroom semi-detached family home will see tenants save big on energy bills

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs
Pubs

'It's not like a normal pub': How communities are rallying together to breathe new life into dying pubs

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?
Elon Musk in 2015
Elon Musk

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
autumn budget

How did Rachel Reeves do in her first autumn budget? We ask people on the frontlines, one year on

How do Big Issue sellers make money?
Vendor Nick Cuthbert
Activism

How do Big Issue sellers make money?

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather
Nicholas, in Liverpool, is wearing a grey beanie and coat with lots of layers under it
Homelessness

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person
a person lies on the pavement facing away from the camera, with a guitar propped up beside them
Homelessness

Here's what to do if you see a homeless person