In last autumn’s Comprehensive Spending Review, the Government outlined plans to extend Local Housing Allowance to social landlords. Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is the method by which local authorities identify how much housing benefit a claimant is entitled to. At the moment social housing providers are excluded from LHA. In a briefing published by Homeless Link […]
A charity that helps homeless people were appalled to hear of a group being doused with cold water as they sheltered in a doorway. The event came to light after Peoples’ Picnic volunteers, who provide meals for homeless people, posted on their Facebook page. The outrage at a Norwich shopping centre, Castle Mall, was investigated […]
The government’s housing and planning bill was debated in the Commons last Tuesday (5.1.16), with discussion over amendments dragging on until 2 in the morning. The debate took so long because there are real concerns that the bill is badly thought out and could, in effect, see the end of council tenancies. This, at a […]
A video showing a man giving the shirt off his back to another man who was shivering on a Brooklyn-bound A train in New York City has gone viral. The act of kindness was caught on camera and shared to Facebook by Lazaro Noscalo, who told the New York Daily News the man had no […]
A recent report by Homeless Link reveals that at the end of September 2015 there were 68,560 households living in temporary accommodation, a 13% increase on the same time the previous year. Over three-quarters of these households, 53,480 in total, contained children and/or a pregnant woman. The number of households living in bed and breakfast […]
Faced with a harsh winter and a difficult economic situation, some Iranian citizens have organised spontaneous outdoor charity drives to help local homeless people. But the “walls of kindness” appearing in major Iranian cities have also generated an online debate about official efforts to help the poor, says a BBC report. The idea started in […]
Homeless in the ‘Mile-High City’ of Denver, Colrado, had themselves a marijuana-filled Christmas. Cannabis Can, a non-profit organisation hit the streets of the city on Christmas Eve and gave away 1,000 free, pre-rolled joints to the city’s less homeless, ABC news reported. Nick Dicenzo, the founder of Cannabis Can, said they are trying to educate […]
It’s business as usual for all Sefton Supported Housing Group projects over the holiday period, as each organisation will continue to provide their normal service opening times. The Sit-Up Service for rough sleepers at Bosco House, the Sead Project and Leyland Road, will operate as usual, 8pm to 8am, each night. This means that no […]
Bosco House is to pilot a new approach to helping chaotic drinkers reduce the harm from the alcohol they are consuming. The aim of the programme is to help clients gain control over their drinking by allowing them to have an agreed amount of alcohol at set times during the day. This is part of […]
New Start has been working in partnership with Liverpool Citizen Advice Partnership since April 2015 to deliver the Improving Financial Confidence Programme. New Start is a host Hub providing support to volunteers to enable them to provide assistance to help tenants manage their finances. The scheme is aimed at social housing tenants, first-time tenants, such as […]
