We must make a change. Please read these ideas and vote on the three that you think most likely to create change through this link.

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Visual observations checklist for homelessness prevention - Enabling frontline staff to capture visual observations on home visits (e.g. gas engineers, repairs staff) to identify people at risk of homelessness

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Homes to Roost - A secure platform matching empty properties with people who are hidden homeless; a campaign and hub to bring forward people who are hidden homeless

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Virtual addresses with lockers and a service to get your ID and a bank account - Install lockers in local council and housing association offices that rough sleepers can use as an official address. Combine this with a service that makes it very easy to request any missing ID documents (Birth certificate, NI No, Passport), scan them into a virtual locker (and put them in the physical one) and then use these ID documents to open a bank account.

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Recovering citizen ID - Providing ID with fingerprint biometrics integrated with the Citizen ID database - improving access to homes, income, helth and employment services

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Drop-in space to build trust - Preventing situations that debt can produce (e.g. evictions) through providing a trusted holisic space for people to met with a debt navigator. Enable the customer to discuss their situation without pressue to make recovery arrangements

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Safe spaces for rough sleepers - Physical space and community support to protect rough sleepers and their belongings and signpost to other services

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Tacco (temporary accommodation app) - An app for people living in temporary accommodation to provide information, advice, FAQs. Includes a temporary accommodation finder like Rightmove and reviewing accomodation like Trip Advisor.

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Information, advice and guidance for sofa surfers - Campaign to raise awareness of rights for people sofa surfing. Including property portals, leaflets, videos, webspace and infographics.

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Managing backpayments - Providing support to enable people to manage a backpayment in a positive and healthy way

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Early intervention toolkit for GPs - Toolkit with resources for GPs to facilitate conversations with patients about homelessness. A "deck of cards" to easily ask questions that might signify risk of homelessness and identify those at risk.

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Modular housing for London - Increasing housing supply in London through modular housing - modular buildings made of standardised component parts

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Homelessess collaboration application for young people - Flagging system for those engaging with services - capacity building, resilience building, sharing information, flagging those at risk.

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Prototyping policy: every third home available for homeless people - Housing 4 Homeless: legislation to ensure every 3rd home bought by a develper is rented to a person experiencing homelessness

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Housesharing for young people to prevent homelessness - Matching service for young people on social housing registers, aligning interests, areas and affordability. Supporting access for small groups into HMOs through rent deposit and sustainability with 'house coaches' to provide practical support where needed.

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Children's homelessness hackathon - Children's homelessness hackathon to promote education, reduce assumptions and share lived experience from young people.

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Flagging system to identify at-risk children - Identify a set of flags for risk based on data analysis. Referrals created based on those flags prompting intervention by independant body with young person. Ongoing enagement with young person and monitoring of outcomes. Successful outcomes feedback into ongoing pilot

It could be me awareness campaign - National targeted publicity campaign to raise awareness of how close homelessness is - embedding the idea that homelessness is easy to fall into.