www.bmj.com/content/387/... The case for ending the benefit cap from Professor Kate Pickett, Professor David Taylor-Robinson and Davara Bennett. The direct nature of the relationship between the cap and other cuts and restrictions on welfare benefits and child poverty is glaringly obvious.
Labour must act on its commitment to reduce child poverty Poverty is a disaster for childrenâs health.1 It causes poor child health outcomes and worsening physical and mental health. It undermines ch...
Housing associations started just 150 new homes in London in Q2 2024, compared with 1,890 starts in Q2 2023 - This is a complete collapse in building social housing at a time when it's never been more badly needed. Government urgently needs to step in to help the sector.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/st... Too often I see new information indicating that the state of things is even worse than I thought it was. For context: MHCLG homelessness stats reported 17.8 out of every 1,000 households in London were in temporary accommodation in March '24.
Starts by London housing associations have fallen 92% year-on-year as construction began on just 150 homes in the second quarter of 2024.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/starmer... How about "end homelessness" instead, that would include all those people and everyone else experiencing the most extreme form of poverty, risks to health and misery in society...
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer also promised to introduce a duty of candour law to parliament before April next year
This is spot on from @johnharris1969.bsky.social Excellent piece. We've long known how the far right can mobilise around housing inequalities, distorting where housing exclusion and homelessness are coming from, and Labour are playing at the edges of this, they need to get serious.
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Whenever I talk to people who are bitterly disconnected from politics, they raise the lack of decent homes, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Great presentation on using homelessness research in European policy and practice from Ruth Owen at the 18th European @feantsa.bsky.social research conference
We're at the final session of a great European Homelessness Research Conference in Budapest, the 18th organised by @feantsa.bsky.social
About to present on UK lived experiences of Housing First at the 18th European Homelessness Research Conference @feantsa.bsky.social
About to chair the first of three sessions at the @feantsa.bsky.social 18th homelessness research conference on health and homelessness
About to start the 18th @feantsa.bsky.social homelessness research conference in Budapest, cutting edge research in the context of pan-EU ambitions to end homelessness
