Paula Barker: ‘In power, Labour must live up to its proud record on tackling homelessness’
Nobody should have to experience the trauma of homelessness, yet fourteen years of austerity and economic mismanagement from the conservative government have left us in a crisis, with the number of people finding themselves either on the street or stuck in sub-standard accommodation, spiralling out of control. At the end of June last year our […]
Paula Barker: ‘How an exhibition tells the true stories of people suffering homelessness’
On the first day back after Christmas recess we launched a week-long exhibition in the Upper Gallery in Parliament called Outsiders. Outsiders is a documentary photography project by Marc Davenant which aimed to capture a snapshot of homelessness in modern Britain over a six-year period. Exhibitions like this one are so important because they show […]
