Homelessness

From homeless and busking to the main stage: Rodney Bell’s wheelchair dance tours Australia

The Māori performer can’t remember the motorcycle accident that paralysed him – but it led him to dance

Steve Dow

11, Aug, 2022 @5:30 PM

Federal minister urges Australians to help tackle homelessness ‘in their back yard’

Julie Collins to tell thinktank ‘ensuring every Australian has a safe place to call home is not someone else’s job’

Paul Karp

07, Aug, 2022 @5:30 PM

Sohaila, London: ‘It’s charming, the food is great’ – restaurant review

A social enterprise has opened its first restaurant – but eating here is far from an act of charity. By Jay Rayner

Jay Rayner

07, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM

A moment that changed me: my family moved into a shelter – and I yearned for my childhood home

My single mother struggled with the cost of bringing up three children, and we lost our house. Today, I still dream of it

Colleen Hubbard

03, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM

Sole parents like myself are facing homelessness. It’s time our PM realised this is not the Australia he grew up in | Anonymous

Anthony Albanese may speak proudly of being raised by a single mum in public housing, but life has become a lot harsher for those with less

Anonymous

01, Aug, 2022 @5:30 PM

‘No money, no pension, no savings’: how caring for others has left women in a state of precarity

Readers share their stories and thoughts on a society that punishes women who spent much of their lives raising and caring for others

Guardian readers

29, Jul, 2022 @1:36 AM

Laurence Brophy obituary

Other lives: Community worker and fundraiser in South Wales who ran ultra-marathons in the Sahara and Atacama deserts in his late 70s

John Dunford

26, Jul, 2022 @5:12 PM

Homeless families housed in Birmingham hotels moved ahead of Commonwealth Games

City council admits up to 20 families sent to Coventry to make space for visitors to the games

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

26, Jul, 2022 @4:25 PM

‘Without Find and Treat I wouldn’t be here’: the NHS service caring for London’s vulnerable

On the streets of the capital with the doctors, nurses and outreach workers administering care to at-risk populations. Photographs by Tom Pilston

Denis Campbell

26, Jul, 2022 @11:34 AM

The not-for-profit real estate agents of last resort aiming to disrupt a troubled housing market

A new model of agency has emerged to assist lower-income earners and vulnerable people

Joe Hinchliffe

22, Jul, 2022 @8:00 PM

Woman who died sleeping rough in Adelaide parklands not found for three weeks

Services report 279 ‘actively homeless’ people in SA as ministers meet to address national housing crisis

Royce Kurmelovs