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US runaway mother resurfaces
Lizzie Cernik June 27 2013

A homeless woman who vanished 11 years ago snapped due to extreme stress

  A homeless woman who vanished 11 years ago has resurfaced, in a bid to make amends to her abandoned children. After dis...

Green Pastures focuses on eliminating poverty
Lizzie Cernik March 20 2013

As benefit cuts bite, the charity increases its efforts to find appropriate housing across the UK

  As benefit cuts continue, Green Pastures has increased its efforts to find appropriate housing for vulnerable people in ...

Homeless heir to fortune dies of hypothermia
Lizzie Cernik February 04 2013

Man who could have inherited $19 million had disappeared after his mother’s death

  A homeless man who was heir to a huge railroad fortune was found dead in Wyoming in December. According to reports in t...

Homeless couple marry in Australia
Lizzie Cernik November 03 2012

Church wedding for 40 for Mr  and Mrs Stewart

The average cost of a wedding in the UK is now more than £20,000, but a couple in Australia last month proved money doesn&...

Southend’s homeless numbers underestimated
Lizzie Cernik November 03 2012

Estimate of eight rough sleepers is “a joke”, says pastor

Official homeless figures for Southend have been underreported, according to a local pastor. Del Thomas told the Southend Stand...

Homeless couple marry in Australia
Lizzie Cernik July 17 2012

Friends wave the Stewarts off for a honeymoon in Tasmania

  Proving money doesn’t buy love, a homeless couple from Melbourne were married last month in a beautiful low-cost c...

Number of homeless in Southend underestimated
Lizzie Cernik July 17 2012

The official figure is “a joke”, says local pastor

  Official homeless figures for Southend have been under-reported, according to a local pastor. Del Thomas told the South...

Charities join forces to house the homeless
Lizzie Cernik April 09 2012

Low-rent ‘peer landlord’ scheme will help formerly homeless people get back to work

  Commonweal Housing and Thames Reach have announced plans to work together on a new project designed to encourage ex-home...

No homeless in Lambeth by May 2012
Lizzie Cernik March 15 2012

 Rough sleepers to be offered accommodation or repatriation

  Lambeth Council has set a goal to clear its streets of rough sleepers by May this year, The Pavement has learned. Acco...

Nottingham hotline
Lizzie Cernik February 10 2012

Rough sleepers who refer themselves can get bed and breakfast accommodation for that night

  Nottinghamshire-based homelessness charity Framework has witnessed a steady increase in the number of calls to its homel...

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