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Health and wellbeing

Being homeless has a negative impact on someone’s health and makes it difficult to access health services.

What is the solution?

Health professionals should work with other services to help people recover and move on from homelessness. Health services also have a role to play in preventing people becoming homeless in the first place. Having a safe home reduces the risk of developing health conditions commonly experienced by people living on the streets.

In 2021, Crisis merged with Pathway, the leading homeless healthcare charity, in a bid to tackle the health inequalities impacting those who are homeless and ensure that the healthcare system plays its part in ending homelessness across Great Britain.

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Impact of homelessness

Our research into the impact homelessness has on physical and mental health. Find out more about the impacts of homelessness.

78%

of homeless people report having a physical health condition

in comparison with 37% of the general population.

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What you can do

Volunteer with Crisis

You are part of ending homelessness, one journey at a time.


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We campaign for the changes needed to end homelessness for good.


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