Housing & Homelessness Campaigns

Crisis – Campaign to End Homelessness

Crisis campaigns for the policy changes it believes are needed to end homelessness across England, Scotland and Wales.

Current campaigning includes:

• Ending homelessness for good
• Ending rough sleeping
• Restoring housing benefits so they cover the true cost of rent
• Housing and social-housing reform
• Health and wellbeing
• Employment and benefits
• Homelessness law and rights

Crisis – Restore Housing Benefits

Crisis is campaigning for housing benefits to cover the real cost of renting.

The campaign argues that frozen Local Housing Allowance rates combined with rising rents leave people facing unaffordable shortfalls and increased risk of homelessness.

Homewards

Homewards was launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation.

Its goal is to demonstrate that homelessness can be made:

Rare, brief and unrepeated.

It is a five-year programme working through six flagship locations:

• Aberdeen
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• Lambeth
• Newport
• Northern Ireland
• Sheffield

Local coalitions bring together councils, businesses, charities, health services, people with lived experience and community organisations.

Homewards – Homelessness Data Lab

The Homelessness Data Lab was launched in 2026 as a national collaboration involving Homewards, LandAid and Salesforce.

It aims to improve how data and technology are used to:

• Identify homelessness risks earlier
• Prevent people reaching crisis point
• Improve coordination between services
• Reduce administration for frontline workers
• Support quicker and more targeted intervention

The programme brings together more than 25 organisations from business, charities, public services and government.

Centrepoint – No Young Person Left Out

Centrepoint campaigns to end youth homelessness.

Its No Young Person Left Out campaign is calling for young people who approach councils because they are homeless or at risk of homelessness to receive the assessment and support they are entitled to.

Centrepoint is calling for:

• A government review of council youth-homelessness assessment rates
• Funding that matches local demand
• Timely assessments and support for young people

EveryYouth – Put Youth Homelessness to Bed

EveryYouth is a national charity working with young people aged 16–25 who are facing homelessness.

Its annual:

Put Youth Homelessness to Bed

campaign raises awareness of why a safe place to sleep is fundamental to education, employment, wellbeing and independence.

The campaign combines public awareness, fundraising and corporate partnerships.

New Horizon Youth Centre – #PlanForThe136k

New Horizon Youth Centre campaigns on behalf of young people experiencing homelessness.

Its campaign:

#PlanForThe136k

calls for a national strategy specifically aimed at ending youth homelessness.

akt – LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness

akt campaigns locally and nationally for stronger protection and support for LGBTQ+ young people who are homeless or living in hostile or unsafe environments.

Its campaigning priorities include:

• A national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness strategy
• Better monitoring of LGBTQ+ homelessness
• Safe and inclusive housing
• Preventing repeat homelessness
• Inclusive homelessness services

LandAid

LandAid brings together the property and built-environment industries to help tackle youth homelessness.

Its work includes:

• Funding accommodation projects
• Homelessness prevention
• Supporting young people into secure homes
• Campaigning and awareness events
• Partnership work with Homewards
• Participation in the Homelessness Data Lab

Its 2026 programme includes national fundraising and awareness events such as the LandAid Trek and regional property-industry events.

Only A Pavement Away

Only A Pavement Away connects hospitality employers with people facing homelessness and other barriers to employment.

Its campaigns and events promote:

• Stable employment
• Routes out of homelessness
• Support for prison leavers
• Support for domestic-abuse survivors
• Financial and emotional support after employment

The charity aims to substantially expand the number of people it helps into stable employment by 2030.

St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity

St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity works across the UK to make sure everyone has a safe place to call home.

Its national work combines campaigning and practical action through:

• Emergency homelessness grants
• Support to sustain accommodation
• Support for frontline homelessness workers
• Testing new homelessness solutions
• Advocating policy change
• Funding access-to-accommodation projects

The Big Issue – Poverty Zero

The Big Issue's current major campaign is:

Poverty Zero.

It is campaigning for poverty reduction to become a legal requirement for UK governments.

The campaign links homelessness prevention to:

• Secure housing
• Stable income
• Health and wellbeing
• Employment
• Long-term poverty prevention

The Big Issue – Big Futures

Big Futures campaigns to break cycles of poverty and protect younger and future generations.

Its demands include:

• End housing insecurity
• Improve incomes and wages
• Invest in young people
• Create secure employment opportunities

St Mungo's – Campaigning to End Homelessness

St Mungo's combines frontline homelessness services with national policy influencing.

Its key asks include:

• Long-term funding for homelessness services
• Protecting renters from homelessness
• Preventing homelessness when people leave public institutions
• Benefits that better reflect housing costs
• Better health and care support
• Large-scale delivery of social-rent homes

Museum of Homelessness

Museum of Homelessness campaigns against injustice experienced by people who are homeless.

Its work includes:

• Independent investigations
• Campaign activity
• Homeless-death monitoring
• Human-rights advocacy
• Emergency action
• Public education
• Challenging stigma and criminalisation

Its 2026 work has included campaigning around extreme weather, deaths while homeless and proposals for national homelessness policy.

The Passage – Homelessness Cannot Wait

The Passage supports people experiencing homelessness in London while also pushing national and local leaders to turn homelessness commitments into action.

Its current policy message focuses on:

• Investing in homelessness programmes that work
• Preventing homelessness earlier
• More social housing
• Long-term solutions rather than repeated crisis responses

Its No Night Out initiative is designed to stop people becoming entrenched in rough sleeping.

StreetLink

StreetLink enables members of the public to send an alert about someone they have seen sleeping rough.

The information can help local outreach services locate people and offer support.

It turns public awareness into practical action rather than leaving people unsure what they can do when they see someone sleeping rough.

Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle calls for a fundamental shift in homelessness funding.

Instead of repeatedly paying for expensive crisis responses, the campaign calls for investment in:

• Prevention
• Long-term support
• Housing First
• Supported housing
• Sustainable frontline services
• Cross-government responsibility for homelessness prevention

Keep Our Doors Open

Keep Our Doors Open campaigns for homelessness organisations to receive the funding they need to keep vital services operating.

The campaign calls for funding increases in line with inflation to protect:

• Accommodation projects
• Outreach services
• Support workers
• Frontline homelessness services
• Vital bed spaces

Homelessness & Non-UK Nationals

Homeless Link also campaigns on the homelessness risks faced by non-UK nationals.

Its work includes engagement with:

• Home Office policy
• Local authorities
• Eligibility and housing rights
• Homelessness resulting from immigration-status barriers

Shelter – Build Social Homes

Shelter campaigns for large-scale building of genuinely affordable social-rent homes.

Current campaign priorities include:

• Getting councils building social homes again
• Increasing social-rent supply
• Reducing homelessness
• Helping families trapped in temporary accommodation
• Clearing social-housing waiting lists

Shelter's June 2026 research estimated that at the then-current delivery rate it would take approximately:

119 years

to provide a social home to every household already on England's social-housing waiting lists.

Shelter – A Foundation to Thrive

Shelter's campaign highlights the wider benefits of social housing and challenges the idea that it should only be regarded as emergency housing.

The campaign shows how secure, genuinely affordable housing can provide the stability people need to:

• Raise families
• Work
• Study
• Build communities
• Recover from homelessness

Shelter Scotland – End the Housing Emergency

Shelter Scotland campaigns for the right to a safe and secure home and for action on Scotland's housing emergency.

Current campaigning focuses on:

• Ending child homelessness
• Building more social homes
• Strengthening housing rights
• Ending excessive use of temporary accommodation
• Holding the Scottish Government and councils to account

Its current campaign calls on new MSPs to act on Scotland's housing emergency.

Crisis – End Homelessness in Scotland

Crisis is campaigning for Scotland to end all forms of homelessness.

Its campaign is calling for sustained political commitment and prevention measures with the ambition of ending homelessness by:

2040.

Everyone Home

Everyone Home is a collective bringing together nearly 40 organisations from Scotland's homelessness, housing and academic sectors.

Its work includes campaigns and policy proposals around:

• Ending homelessness and rough sleeping
• Housing justice
• Prevention
• Temporary accommodation
• Destitution
• Human rights
• Social housing

For the 2026 Scottish Parliament election it produced:

Housing Justice: Scaling solutions for a Scotland where everyone has a home.

Cyrenians – Manifesto for Ending Homelessness

Cyrenians campaigns on the causes and consequences of homelessness across Scotland.

Its Manifesto for Ending Homelessness calls for action on:

• Housing
• Poverty
• Trauma
• Health
• Prevention
• Community support
• Opportunities that help people rebuild stable lives

Simon Community Scotland

Simon Community Scotland campaigns and works directly with people affected by homelessness.

Its current work includes:

• Street outreach
• Homelessness prevention
• Housing First
• Support hubs
• Women's homelessness services
• Migrant homelessness prevention
• Supported accommodation
• Advocacy for system change

The organisation describes Scotland's housing emergency as a people emergency.

Crisis – End Homelessness in Wales

Crisis campaigns in Wales for action by the Welsh Government and Members of the Senedd to prevent and end homelessness.

The campaign encourages the public to contact elected representatives and push homelessness higher up the political agenda.

Shelter Cymru – Fight for Home

Shelter Cymru campaigns to change Wales's housing system and end the housing emergency.

Campaign priorities include:

• Ending homelessness
• More social housing
• Affordable rents
• Stronger housing rights
• Action on temporary accommodation

Shelter Cymru – Vote for Home

Vote for Home was Shelter Cymru's 2026 Senedd election campaign.

It called on candidates across Wales to commit to strong action on:

• Homelessness
• Temporary accommodation
• Social housing
• Unaffordable rents
• Wales's housing emergency

The direct election-email action has now closed, but the campaign page and policy demands remain available.

Cymorth Cymru – Home Matters

Cymorth Cymru campaigns with homelessness and housing-support organisations across Wales.

Its current Welsh Budget campaigning includes:

Home Matters.

The campaign calls for stronger funding for:

• Housing Support Grant
• Homelessness Prevention Grant
• Frontline homelessness services
• Housing-support staff

End Youth Homelessness Cymru

End Youth Homelessness Cymru campaigns for a Wales in which no young person is forced to face homelessness, destitution or discrimination.

Its work focuses on:

• Preventing youth homelessness
• System change
• Research
• Policy influencing
• Young people's voices
• Care-experienced young people
• Housing insecurity

It became an independent charity in 2026 after being founded and developed through Llamau.

Llamau – Upstream Cymru

Upstream Cymru is an early-identification and prevention initiative designed to identify young people and families at risk of homelessness before crisis occurs.

The school-based approach looks for signs of:

• Housing instability
• Family breakdown
• Youth homelessness risk
• Need for early support

Llamau is campaigning for earlier intervention rather than waiting until a young person becomes homeless.

Shelter NI – Campaign for Homeless People

Shelter Northern Ireland campaigns for sufficient, decent and affordable housing and an end to long-term homelessness.

Its campaigning and awareness work highlights:

• Long-term homelessness
• Families stuck in temporary accommodation
• Youth homelessness
• Affordable housing shortages
• Public awareness of homelessness

Homeless Connect

Homeless Connect is the representative membership body for organisations working with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Northern Ireland.

Its campaigning role includes:

• Challenging homelessness policy
• Giving the homelessness sector a collective voice
• Connecting homelessness services
• Influencing government
• Improving coordination
• Supporting frontline organisations

Housing Rights – Transforming Prevention Together

Housing Rights is pushing for stronger homelessness prevention across Northern Ireland.

Its September 2026:

Transforming Prevention Together

initiative brings together policymakers, public services, academics, practitioners and people with lived experience to examine how Northern Ireland can prevent homelessness earlier.

Simon Community Northern Ireland

Simon Community Northern Ireland campaigns and works towards:

Ending homelessness in Northern Ireland.

Its work combines:

• Homelessness prevention
• Emergency and temporary accommodation
• Youth support
• Support for families
• Public awareness
• Fundraising campaigns
• Policy change

MACS – Youth Homelessness in Northern Ireland

MACS works with young people who are homeless, leaving care, leaving custody or at risk of housing instability.

Its homelessness work includes:

• Shared-tenancy projects
• Prison resettlement
• Housing support
• Independent-living support
• Youth homelessness prevention

Glass Door – A Million Acts of Hope

Glass Door's 2026 campaigning and fundraising activity includes:

A Million Acts of Hope.

The campaign celebrates and encourages practical acts of support from:

• Volunteers
• Donors
• Fundraisers
• Community partners

Glass Door also campaigns publicly on rough sleeping and the need for stronger homelessness action.

Glass Door – Sleep Out 2026

Glass Door's annual Sleep Out is returning on:

9 October 2026

to coincide with World Homeless Day.

The campaign raises money and awareness for services supporting people affected by homelessness.

Only A Pavement Away – Events & Campaigns

The hospitality industry is encouraged to raise funds and awareness through national and regional events.

Campaign activity includes:

• Race Against Homelessness
• Hospitality challenges
• Awareness campaigns
• Industry conferences
• Employment campaigns

Vagrancy Act Repeal Campaign

Crisis, The Big Issue and other homelessness organisations spent years campaigning to end the criminalisation of rough sleeping under the Vagrancy Act 1824.

The remaining relevant provisions were finally repealed in:

June 2026.

Campaigners described the change as an important step towards treating homelessness as a social problem rather than a crime.

The Big Issue – Stop Mass Homelessness

The Big Issue launched Stop Mass Homelessness in response to the risk of large numbers of households becoming homeless following the pandemic and cost-of-living pressures.

The campaign called for government action on:

• Rent arrears
• Homelessness prevention
• Housing security
• Long-term investment

This is now listed among The Big Issue's past campaigns, while its current campaigning has moved into Poverty Zero and wider poverty prevention.