The Big Issue

How we end homelessness for good

Opinion

LIGIA TEIXEIRA
Founding Chief Executive of The Centre for Homelessness Impact

Can we move to a future without homelessness? No discussion of the future of housing should take place without considering this question.

Just as we need new solutions to our broken housing model, both here in the UK and internationally, we should consider new solutions to ending homelessness. This means evaluating robustly good practice already in use to scale up interventions with proven impact, and testing out innovating new approaches to grow the evidence base for what works.

This task is more urgent than ever because, wherever

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