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YOUR RESULTS FOR STORIES BY Katy Taylor

Katy Taylor specialises in social affairs and women?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s issues. An award-winning interviewer, she writes for the Evening Standard and has been published in the Guardian, New Statesman and on the Fabian Society's Next Left blog. Prior to training as journalist, Katy worked with vulnerable adults in the voluntary and statutory sectors.

The long run
Katy Taylor February 10 2011

Homeless woman to run Dublin marathon for the Doorway Project

A London-based, rough-sleeping blogger is running the Dublin marathon to raise money for a rural homeless charity. Despite ha...

Dying rough sleeper found alive and well...
Katy Taylor July 03 2010

...despite a lack of interest from the UK‘s press

A missing rough sleeper who was thought to have only 24 hours left to live has been found alive and well, despite a lack of inte...

Making Invisible People visible
Katy Taylor July 03 2010

Activist shocked by Alaskan homelessness

A veteran documentary maker and homeless advocate has said he was shocked as he travelled around America's most northerly and sp...

America's homeless head for Hawaii
Katy Taylor June 06 2010

Three dollars a day buys you bed, board and a lot of sunshine

Meanwhile, a somewhat different approach is also leading to an increase in the homeless population of one island. Hawaii has...

Squatters given local backing to take on the council
Katy Taylor June 06 2010

Herne Hill residents have petitioned Lambeth Council to let four squatters remain as neighbours

Residents of the wealthy 'yummy mummy' area of Herne Hill, south London, have petitioned the council to let four squatters remai...

Tough times for charities
Katy Taylor May 05 2010

Smaller charities working with homeless people may get swallowed

The number of charities working on behalf of homeless people may fall as smaller charities are swallowed up in the wake of the r...

Empty homes, but not empty promises
Katy Taylor April 02 2010

The scrabble to win the hearts of housing campaigners ahead of the election has begun

The scrabble to win the hearts of housing campaigners ahead of the election has begun. There have been no fewer than 18 major ...

Minister urges retailers to donate food
Katy Taylor March 04 2010

Hilary Benn highlights waste food mountain

A government minister has urged the UK's largest food retailers to donate leftover goods to charity food distributors such as Fa...

Squatters given access to list of empty houses
Katy Taylor February 03 2010

Organised squatters can get a list of empty properties if they ask their council

The location of more than 800 vacant houses in the London Borough of Lambeth was published last year following a Freedom of Info...

London's homeless dead remembered
Katy Taylor November 12 2009

Come to St Martin‘s on 12 November.

London's homeless dead shall not be forgotten, thanks the annual commemoration service held in St Martin in the Fields this mont...

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