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YOUR RESULTS FOR STORIES BY Katharine Hibbert

Katharine is a journalist and social entrepreneur.  Her first book, Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society, was published by Ebury Press in 2010, and she is founder and director of Dot Dot Dot Property Guardians (www.dotdotdotproperty.com).
  

Homeless village progress
Katharine Hibbert February 01 2017

Homeless people in Scotland may get the chance to move into a new eco-village after a charity sleep-out raised more than £500,000

Homeless people in Scotland may get the chance to move into a new eco-village after a high profile charity sleep-out involving c...

Help for homeless moves closer to law
Katharine Hibbert December 05 2016

The Homelessness Reduction Bill passed its second reading in the Commons and has government support.

Laws which would force councils to help more single homeless people and those at risk of losing their homes have come a step clo...

Homeless Bill moves forward
Katharine Hibbert October 05 2016

Homelessness charities want the public to lobby their MPs to avoid the Bill being shelved

  Homelessness charities are calling on the public to write to their MPs in support of laws which would protect more peopl...

Make coffee for change
Katharine Hibbert January 04 2016

Former rough sleepers are being trained as baristas - and paid properly

Homeless people are being trained as baristas and set up with coffee carts to provide them with jobs and a route into permanent ...

Young Scots struggle
Katharine Hibbert January 04 2016

A combination of unemployment, benefit sanctions and lack of affordable homes is to blame

More than 28,000 households in Scotland were assessed as homeless last year, with more than 10,000 people in temporary accommoda...

Tent protestors face jail
Katharine Hibbert September 08 2015

A court in Manchester has issued a list of things homeless people can legally sleep in, including cardboard boxes

Seven people in Manchester could be facing prison for camping out in the city centre to highlight the City Council’s homel...

Hackney backs down
Katharine Hibbert July 05 2015

The London council has stepped back from threatening rough sleepers with a £1,000 fine

A London council has stepped back from threatening rough sleepers with a £1,000 fine following widespread criticism, a pet...

Criminalising homelessness
Katharine Hibbert June 03 2015

Rough sleepers risk a £1,000 fine if they bed down in parts of Hackney

Rough sleepers risk a £1,000 fine if they bed down in parts of Hackney, since the east London borough became the first use...

Homelessness past
Katharine Hibbert February 06 2015

New exhibition of homelessness in London shows how little some things have changed

A new exhibition at London's Geffrye Museum is set to shine light on the hidden lives of homeless people who lived in the capita...

English drug deaths rise
Katharine Hibbert October 06 2014

Drug charities have “serious concerns” following reports that heroin and morphine deaths  rose by almost a third ast year

Drug charities have expressed “serious concerns” following reports that drug poisoning deaths involving heroin and m...

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