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Homelessness is often imagined as sleeping on a sidewalk. In wartime Ukraine, however, the reality is far broader: people may be living in shelters, abandoned buildings, temporary rooms, or the homes of relatives without possessing a safe and stable place of their own.
As extreme heat swept across Europe last month, the UK registered record temperatures for June. For the homelessness sector, this severely impacts our clients and our workforce. But, as the climate crisis intensifies, how prepared are we?
Alexia Murphy, CEO of Depaul UK, welcomes Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping, but calls for urgent action on youth homelessness. She urges investment in prevention, affordable housing, frontline services, support for care leavers, and policies shaped by young people with lived experience across the United Kingdom.
Official statistics capture only a fraction of homelessness in wartime Ukraine. A major new study by Depaul Ukraine suggests that tens of thousands of people remain uncounted—and that the true crisis may be far larger than existing records indicate.
The repeal of the Vagrancy Act ends two centuries of criminalising rough sleeping and begging in England and Wales. Yet legal reform alone is not enough. Lasting progress will depend on investment in prevention, outreach, housing and trauma-informed support, while ensuring that new powers do not simply replace one form of criminalisation with another.
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has drastically altered the scale of homelessness in the country, a report by expert national homelessness charity Depaul Ukraine finds. For 46% of individuals experiencing homelessness, conflict or occupation were the primary reasons for losing their homes.
On 1 January 2026, the Famvin Homeless Alliance (FHA) began an exciting new chapter as it became part of Depaul International.
At the World Urban Forum in Baku, leaders stressed that housing must be central to global efforts on homelessness, climate change, and inequality. With millions unhoused or in informal settlements, speakers called for stronger coalitions, climate-resilient housing, affordable solutions, and policies shaped by affected communities.
Depaul Ukraine, together with the Vincentian Family, has opened transitional housing near Kyiv for people experiencing homelessness, displaced persons, veterans, and former prisoners, offering shelter, documentation, psychosocial support, and paths toward dignified reintegration.
