2025

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Poverty is widespread: More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (21%) were in poverty in 2022/23 – 14.3 million people.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty Report 2025
... Destitution is widespread: around 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty Report 2025
Large and increasing numbers rely on foodbanks: More than 574,000 destitute people were supported by food banks in 2022, up from 214,000 in 2019

The Guardian 2023
The benefits safety net is failing: a single adult on the basic £85 weekly rate of universal credit is by definition in severe hardship, falling below the £95 a week destitution threshold
Housing is in crisis: 17.5 million people are trapped by the housing emergency

Shelter Report 2023
Homelessness is high and rising: Britain has by far the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world

John Kurt CEO Hope Into Action Feb 2025
Social housing waiting lists are out of control: over 1.3 million households are on the social housing waiting list, and over 16,000 children are homeless in temporary accommodation

Shelter March 2025
Rough sleeping is back after Covid: 4,667 people were recorded sleeping rough on a given night last autumn. The number of people sleeping rough in England has more than doubled since 2010

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Working people are homeless too; In England, almost a quarter of households facing homelessness have family members who are working

ITV report 2024
The causes of the UK poverty crisis are known: Mismatch between cost of living and people’s income. Low wage economy, inadequate level of benefits, the housing crisis, and inflation in all other costs

Anna Taylor, Food Foundation Feb 2025
Poverty is made up of three problems: Poverty of Resources, Poverty of Relationships, Poverty of Identity

John Kurt CEO Hope Into Action Feb 2025

A NEW EMPATHY ACTION IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP

Poverty is widespread: More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (21%) were in poverty in 2022/23 – 14.3 million people.

... Destitution is widespread: around 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children.

Large and increasing numbers rely on foodbanks: More than 574,000 destitute people were supported by food banks in 2022, up from 214,000 in 2019

The benefits safety net is failing: a single adult on the basic £85 weekly rate of universal credit is by definition in severe hardship, falling below the £95 a week destitution threshold

Housing is in crisis: 17.5 million people are trapped by the housing emergency

Homelessness is high and rising: Britain has by far the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world

Social housing waiting lists are out of control: over 1.3 million households are on the social housing waiting list, and over 16,000 children are homeless in temporary accommodation

Rough sleeping is back after Covid: 4,667 people were recorded sleeping rough on a given night last autumn. The number of people sleeping rough in England has more than doubled since 2010

Working people are homeless too; In England, almost a quarter of households facing homelessness have family members who are working

The causes of the UK poverty crisis are known: Mismatch between cost of living and people’s income. Low wage economy, inadequate level of benefits, the housing crisis, and inflation in all other costs

Poverty is made up of three problems: Poverty of Resources, Poverty of Relationships, Poverty of Identity

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