The Liverpool City Region can be at the forefront of tackling the UK’s housing crisis as a house built in just seven days was unveiled as part of a new strategy to deliver zero energy bill homes, reports the Liverpool Echo. To unveil the Future Homes LCR plan, a specially constructed house – made entirely […]
A new Renters’ Rights Bill, introduced to Parliament today, would ban ‘no fault’ evictions and extend Awaab’s Law to the private rental sector, reports Housing Today. The new legislation goes beyond the measures proposed by the previous Conservative government in its Renters Reform Bill, which failed to pass into law before the general election was […]
Angela Rayner will lead a cross-government taskforce to tackle record-high homelessness. Here are four things the group must do immediately, according to Homeless Link’s Rick Henderson in the Big Issue. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced that Rushanara Ali has taken on the homelessness brief, meanwhile Angela Rayner announced she […]
People stuck in homeless accommodation are left in limbo as finding affordable private rental homes feels impossible, reports Property118. A report by independent researcher Becky Rice on behalf of charity Commonweal Housing reveals many homeless people are unable to leave their homeless accommodation due to the rising costs of rent. A 2022 survey by the […]
Legal action has been taken by Transport for London (TfL) to clear a strip of land in the middle of Park Lane in central London occupied by homeless people, reports the BBC. The land is managed by the transport authority, which was granted a possession order by Central London County Court last month. TfL said […]
Dozens of people turned up at a pub to show their support for a busker who has recently gone viral on TikTok, reports the Liverpool Echo. John Metcalfe, a homeless man who was filmed playing his guitar and singing outside a McDonald’s drive-thru, said the reaction to the video has been “crazy”. “It’s been incredible […]
Councils in England spent a record £1bn on temporary accommodation for homeless families in the past year, reports the BBC. This is more than 50% higher than the year before, driven by record numbers of families living in short-term housing, including over 150,000 children. Councils spent £417m accommodating families in hostels and bed and breakfasts, […]
The housing charity Crisis’ latest report found that interviewees had contacted a total of at least 80 services prior to becoming homeless, reports Housing Today. Opportunities to prevent people from becoming homeless in Scotland are “repeatedly being missed”, according to a report by charity Crisis. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 people facing homelessness, the […]
Most parts of Lancashire have a higher proportion of households at risk of becoming homeless than elsewhere in the North West of England, reports the BBC. Statistics show nine of the county’s 14 council areas exceed the regional average, with Blackpool being in the top 10 places in England for both the rate of households in […]
The presence of a university pushes up housing costs for local people on low incomes. But higher education institutions can play more of a role to building structural solutions to homelessness, writes Centre for Homelessness Impact’s Greg Hurst for the Big Issue. Traditional student life has a romantic quality that can capture the zeitgeist of an age. In […]
