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Ahead of the General Election, Homeless Link have today been briefing Labour's Homelessness spokesperson Mike Amesbury MP on the key issues facing the sector.

Guest blog from one of the founders of Beam, Alex Stephany, explores the history and explains how they use a hybrid crowdfunding-caseworker model to eliminate financial and personal barriers to leaving homelessness.

To mark International Coaching Week, we caught up with some of our fantastic Homeless Link Coaches.

This Mental Health Awareness week take a few minutes to read about the links between mental health and homelessness. And unpack a treasure chest of useful practical resources.

The latest edition of the Women's Rough Sleeping Census has been published, Alex Smith reports from the launch event with more details.

Huge rises in homelessness and rough sleeping shows the Government's rough sleeping strategy has failed.

The letter, organised by Crisis and signed by other 30 organisations, warns that the measures in the Criminal Justice Bill will undermine the Government's target of ending rough sleeping in England.

This guest blog is written by Eva Bell, Participation Officer at Samaritans and lead of the Suicide Prevention Consortium.

Checkout our free online bitesize e-learning packages for people working in frontline homelessness services. Also including fundraising training.

Our analysis found that no fault evictions led to a household being threatened with homelessness 52 times a day on average since April 2019.

Introducing free resources and E-Learning to support people working in rough sleeping outreach services.

Jonathan Tan, Founder and CEO of Greater Change writes about how their model of providing personalised budgets helps people out of homelessness for good.

Ahead of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Elections on 2nd May this guest blog looks at the roles of the PCC, how they can impact on homelessness and why we should engage with them.

Carmen Clarke, Homeless Link Associate, shares her insights from updating the Race, ethnicity, and experiences of homelessness course.

The Sasha Foundation makes grants up to £10,000 for charities helping individuals who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues.

The local elections on May 2nd offer a chance to engage council and mayoral candidates, making the case for policies that end homelessness.

Co-authors of the recently updated Autism and Homelessness Toolkit write about the reasons why homelessness disproportionally affects autistic people and how the toolkit can support the sector.

Recently we spoke to the Exeter Navigation Team, winners of the Homeless Link Excellence Awards 2023, about how they’re supporting people facing severe multiple disadvantage in Exeter.

This free tool can be used by leaders across the homelessness sector to make an assessment of the quality of local partnership working, and to help to develop an action plan.

In this guest blog, Rory Weal, Strategic Policy Lead for rural homelessness at English Rural, and a speaker at our upcoming Rough Sleeping Conference sets out the importance of taking a tailored approach to the unique challenges of helping those sleeping rough in rural locations.