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Liam Geraghty
Liam has written for The Big Issue since 2017, originally starting out as a Junior Writer/Sub-Editor before working up the ranks to become Senior Reporter in 2019 and Deputy Digital Editor (News) in 2023. That role sees him take charge of news and investigations relating to housing, homelessness and social issues. He also helps Big Issue vendors tell their story.
Truro Big Issue vendor raises £1,000 for dog home that helped him get new puppy
Big Issue vendor Nick Cuthbert
Our Vendors

Truro Big Issue vendor raises £1,000 for dog home that helped him get new puppy

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
uk heatwave
Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and Luke Charters, Labour’s candidate for York Outer, speak to apprentices at Persimmon Homes Germany Beck in York.
Social housing

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs

Tory government had no plan to end homelessness in England, watchdog finds
A woman who is experiencing homelessness holding her daughter
Homelessness

Tory government had no plan to end homelessness in England, watchdog finds

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments
A sign advertising the use of public toilets for £3
Public toilets

Homeless people face being locked out of public toilets due to card-only payments

Prison crisis: Early release scheme could see hundreds of prisoners released into homelessness
Barbed wire on a wall at a prison
Prisons

Prison crisis: Early release scheme could see hundreds of prisoners released into homelessness

This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness
Care leaver Bayley Tubman with her 'aunties'
Care leavers

This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness

Academics put trackers on homeless people – what they learned could be a 'game-changer'
A homeless person is interviewed on the streets of Sutton
Rough sleeping

Academics put trackers on homeless people – what they learned could be a 'game-changer'

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'
Housing

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'

Prince William insists it's possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one
Prince William at a meeting to launch Homewards, his mission to end homelessness
Homelessness

Prince William insists it's possible to end homelessness as Homewards project turns one

UK needs 120,000 new rental homes to cut record-high rents, Rightmove warns
A sign reading 'For Rent'
RENTING

UK needs 120,000 new rental homes to cut record-high rents, Rightmove warns

Keir Starmer can ‘only bring real change by fixing the housing emergency’
Shelter activists hold up banner targeting Keir Starmer which reads:
General election 2024

Keir Starmer can ‘only bring real change by fixing the housing emergency’