2023 Reporting homelessness prize winner

Daniel Lavelle

Daniel Lavelle writes on mental health, homelessness and social care. He received the Guardian’s Hugo Young award in 2017, and is the author of Down and Out (September 2023).

Submitted material:

• ‘Being homeless felt inevitable’: after years in care, I was living in a tent. Who was to blame?
• Here’s why so many people sleep rough on Britain’s streets – Sunak’s Tories have chosen to leave them there
• One pay packet away from the streets: the workers who became homeless in the pandemic