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The empty doorway

An estimated 800 homeless people died in the 18 months to March 2019. In this series, Guardian Cities looks behind this statistic to tell the stories of some of those who have died on Britain’s streets

13 March 2020

  • Jasmine King, who runs Kin and Cloth fashion label in north London. Photographed at home in Kings Cross, 21 February 2020

    Life after homelessness: 'When they found me a flat, I felt nothing could stop me'

    When Jasmine King had to move out of her home, she ended up in a hostel. But her aspirations and persistency helped her to find a way out

25 December 2019

  • Paddy Burke, who used to be homeless

    Life after homelessness: 'I was once housed in an old police station. My room? A cell'

    Paddy Burke, 43, lived in more than 50 temporary homes over four years while battling drug addiction. When he turned 40, his determination to change his life won out

24 December 2019

  • Warwick Benjamin, who used to be homeless

    Life after homelessness: 'My first night sleeping rough was in a graveyard'

    Warwick Benjamin, 40, wrote to the Guardian to tell us his experience of being homeless when work as a graphic designer dried up

23 December 2019

  • Tony Jones, who was formerly homeless and lives on a narrowboat

    Life after homelessness: 'I bought a rusty old narrowboat – it has become a nice home'

    Tony Jones, 48, wrote to the Guardian to tell us how he spent years bouncing between the streets and temporary accommodation before finding domestic bliss on the water

21 December 2019

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    Investigating Britain's homelessness crisis: 'It didn't need to be this way'

    Earlier this month, Simon Hattenstone and Danny Lavelle won the Features Journalism award for The Empty Doorway at the British Journalism Awards. Here, they explain why their work has felt so meaningful, and why the heartening response from readers

20 December 2019

  • Stefania Bada, who was homeless and died in Forest Hill, London

    Your tributes to homeless people who have died

  • Shonagh Johnson at home in London

    Life after homelessness: 'I had to choose between eating and clean clothes'

19 December 2019

  • James Creed at home in Sheffield

    Life after homelessness: 'I am engaged and my partner has given birth to triplets'

    James Creed, 38, lost everything to substance abuse and was resigned to life on the streets. Now he has a home, a family and a job with the charity that helped him

18 December 2019

  • Andy Palfreyman at home in London

    Life after homelessness: 'When I moved into my own flat, I cried tears of joy all night'

    Andy Palfreyman, 54, spent 30 years on the streets before he had a chance encounter with an artist

17 December 2019

  • Victoria 'Tori' Taiwo at home

    Life after homelessness: 'I was always creative and ambitious'

  • Susan Sutton, 60, at home in Glasgow

    Life after homelessness: 'A kind stranger gave me a bed, a key, new clothes and a job'

11 December 2019

  • London home to a quarter of Britain's homeless<br>epa07239947 Homeless Lee, 38, from Gravesend in London, Britain, 19 December 2018. Lee has been homeless for eighteen months after breaking up with his girlfriend in Gravesend. He rolls a joint made of spice, 'I need it on the street. It helps me sleep', he says. London now accounts for a quarter of Britain's homeless. Some twenty five thousand people across the UK are facing Christmas on the street. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    Homelessness is a national disgrace. Let’s make Britain humane again

    Philip Pullman
  • A homeless man sleeps in central London on a concrete bench with his belongings in a transparent bin liner

    The empty doorway: the people behind Britain's homeless statistics

10 December 2019

  • Jon Henley

    Homelessness is not inevitable and can be solved – these cities show us how

    Jon Henley
    Big national strategies often struggle to make progress but, from Trieste to Helsinki, individual cities are reducing – and even ending – homelessness
  • Mark Starr, who died in Glasgow’s oldest park on 28 June.

    Mark Starr's family thought he was thriving in a new city. The truth was far darker

    Mark Starr 1965-2019 It took five weeks for the news to reach the Starrs: rather than being stable and happy, Mark had died sleeping rough in a Glasgow park. Why?

  • My homeless brother died on the streets of Glasgow. Who will be next? – video 

    Mark Starr died on the streets of Glasgow earlier this year; his family found out five weeks later on social media. As part of the Guardian’s empty doorway series we retraced his final steps alongside his brother Tony

3 December 2019

  • A memorial marks the place where Gyula Remes used to sleep in a Westminster underpass.

    The homeless death statistics are shocking – but the true total may be even higher

    Sebastian Lucas
  • Clive Dalrymple 1967-2019

    When Clive Dalrymple died homeless, he left his paintings. Do they hold clues to his death?

26 November 2019

  • Shaista Aziz

    The death of Sharron Maasz shows why domestic abuse services are vital

    Shaista Aziz
  • Sharron Maasz, who died in Oxford aged 44.

    Why did Sharron Maasz, a much-loved outreach worker, end up dying homeless herself?

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