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Greg Barradale @gregbarradale.bsky.social · 6d

In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050

In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k

In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property

It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils

Big Issue investigates the Right To Buy properties sold back to councils for massive profits, just years after being bought at a discount.

www.bigissue.com

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Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · 4d

Once a century...

Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · 4d

With this week marking what would have been Thatcher's 100th, I asked the local council in Grantham why they were holding ThatcherFest in her memory.

Fair play, the answer made me laugh:

www.bigissue.com/culture/marg...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 2

Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Revealed: Asylum hotel protests dwarfed by runners going to Parkrun

Protesters outside asylum hotels over the bank holiday weekend were vastly outnumbered by Parkrun runners, Big Issue analysis found.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Jul 12

Of all the things related to immigration I have been asked to comment on, this by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social for the @bigissue.com was a strange, but fun, one.

How is this even a debate? Of course Superman is an immigrant. He is the very definition of one.

www.bigissue.com/culture/film...

Superman has always been an immigrant

The new Superman film has caused controversy after James Gunn called it the story of ‘an immigrant’. The character has always been this way.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · May 9

Big Issue is coming to Cardiff – and we want to hear from YOU!
🗓 12–14 May
📍 PWSH Centre, Queen St
🕙 10am–5pm

Our journalists are in town to listen, report & connect. Got a story? Drop in and chat to us; no appointments necessary.

Let’s shape the news together. Cardiff, we’re all ears. 👂

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Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks to @mattdownie.bsky.social, @depaul-uk.bsky.social and @housing-justice.bsky.social for speaking to me and reflecting on a rollercoaster five years.

Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · Mar 25

How did we get from reducing rough sleeping to virtually zero at the start of the Covid lockdown to the record-breaking numbers on the streets today?

I analysed the Everyone In scheme's mixed legacy, five years on buff.ly/GtgJI3J

Big Issue @bigissue.com · Mar 25

In the five years since Covid saw thousands of people taken off the streets, rough sleeping has soared. Was the Everyone In scheme a success or one of the greatest missed opportunities of the last decade?

Read more. ⬇️
buff.ly/GtgJI3J

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Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks for your insights, Matt!

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excellent piece in the @bigissue.com by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social on the conclusions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the UK. The article begins with social security, and goes on to cover a range of recommendations on housing, wages, work, poverty reduction & measurement

Headline and lede from Big Issue article by Liam Geraghty on 4 March 2025, with a photo of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also called for the UK to set to measurable targets to eradicate poverty in line with the Big Issue’s Poverty Zero campaign

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Feb 27

🚨 LATEST FIGURES: 📊 The number of people rough sleeping in England has skyrocketed by 20% in just a year.

An estimated 4,667 people were homeless on the streets on a single night in autumn 2024. 📈 The rise is the third consecutive year in which rough sleeping has increased.
bit.ly/4kkuz0y

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Feb 24

Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war: 'Peace is hard to imagine'

Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war

Depaul Ukraine is fighting homelessness in the war-torn country. CEO Anka Skoryk shares how the charity is looking beyond the end of the war.

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Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social · Feb 19

Exquisite taste

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Feb 13

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban

More than 11,000 households lost their home to a section 21 'no-fault' eviction in 2024, government statistics show.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Feb 11

Academics and campaigners have claimed a new basic income pilot in Greater Manchester could “end absolute poverty” in the city region, starting with people experiencing homelessness – if it gets the green light from mayor Andy Burnham. 🚦 Find out more. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3EwrI4q

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Feb 11

Finland has been held up as an international example to follow in tackling homelessness but the Scandinavian country has just reported its first rising numbers in 11 years. 📈

@lgeraghty23.bsky.social reports. ⬇️
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Jan 31

🚨 Breaking: Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026

A total of 4,612 were rough sleeping in London at the end of 2024 as Sadiq Khan warns of wait until 2026 to see falling numbers

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Jan 27

This week's issue is out now! 📰 Inside:

💯 We introduce our Top 100 Changemakers for 2025, celebrating people and organisations who have focused not on themselves but on the rest of society, as voted for by YOU

Find out more ▶️ https://bit.ly/4h8iYzI

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · Jan 11

agdq’s crazy taxi run has a mosh pit

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Hannah Westwater @hannahjtw.bsky.social · Jan 10

I visited Glasgow's new safer drugs consumption facility, The Thistle, ahead of its long awaited opening:

Inside the UK's first safer drugs consumption room – and how it can save lives

The Thistle, Glasgow's safer drug consumption room, launches this month. It's a radical step in tackling Scotland's drug deaths crisis.

www.bigissue.com

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ryan john butcher @ryanjohnbutcher.bsky.social · Jan 9

hello 👋 looking to hear from people working on any sweet photo or art projects in the areas of: social justice and activism; housing and homelessness; nature and climate change; immigration; health; human rights; other cool stuff

is this you? hit me up on ryan dot butcher at big issue dot com

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Dec 23

Homeless woman reunites with couple who 'changed her life' when they gave her a bed for the night

Homeless woman reunites with couple who 'changed her life'

Yasmina was homeless and living in car when Depaul UK's Nightstop service sent her to Mark and Elisabeth Bryant's home. It changed her life.

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Isabella McRae @isabellamcrae.bsky.social · Dec 23

I investigated what life is like for the factory workers across the world who are forced to toil in dangerous conditions for low pay...

While your children open Christmas gifts, millions around the world are working in factories

www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Inside the factories where children are forced to make our Christmas gifts

The gifts you've bought your loved ones this Christmas could have been made in a sweatshop. Big Issue speaks to activists demanding change.

www.bigissue.com

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