Norbert Lawrie

Norbert Lawrie is a former homeless advice worker and campaigner of many years standing. He has been an executive member of CHAR the former campaign for single homeless people, and has been instrumental in gaining council tenancies for hundreds of homeless people including children living in hostel accommodation. Norbert maintains an ongoing relationship with the London street homeless and the squatting movement.

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Homeless man in New York under lockdown. Photo: Anthony Quintano / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

Homeless deaths are rising but the government refuses to act

Terraced houses, Manchester. Photo: Freeimageslive / CC BY 3.0, licence and original photo linked at bottom of article

We must stop the Tories ending the eviction ban

Homeless man in Norwich. Source: Geography.org.uk - Evelyn Simak

The government must commit to end homelessness for good, not just during COVID-19

Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and the police. Photo: Flickr/Number 10

The government’s attacks on Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are an attack on us all

Homelessness in Manchester, September 2019. Photo: Stephen Conway vi Flickr

Rising up from the streets

London bank seized for the homeless

Norbert Lawrie and Clare Solomon

Around 90,000 British children will spend their Christmas living in temporary accommodation, according to Shelter

Homelessness: the scandal that’s become part of the Christmas festival

Protest outside Westbrook Partners HQ in Mayfair on December 1. Photo: The Guardian

Housing justice means council housing – New Era tenants take on the profiteers