Public Law Project’s latest report finds that the average universal credit sanction is hundreds of pounds more than a court fine imposed on a criminal, reports the Big Issue. Universal credit sanctions are “higher and more severe” than the average criminal court fine, new research has revealed. Claimants lose 100% of their universal credit as […]
Housing charity Crisis says this includes people being forced to sleep on the streets and in unsuitable temporary accommodation such as nightly-paid B&Bs and hostels, reports the Mirror. Almost 300,000 families are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness, according to a new report on the growing emergency. Charity Crisis says this includes people being forced […]
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, writes John Harris in the Guardian. Here is the dream, if you can afford it: gleaming apartments, close to Liverpool’s waterfront, complete with penthouse swimming pools with views of the north Wales mountains, and […]
Words on the importance of volunteers and the vital work they do, writes Emdad Rahman for Pavement Magazine. As volunteers lace up their boots and step into the evening chill, they carry a bag of supplies filled with hope, compassion and the conviction that small, sincere actions can ripple into extraordinary change. For me, making […]
Rents across England continue to rise as the numbers of households in temporary accommodation across the country are at a record high, writes Meghan Owen for the BBC. Meanwhile, the amount of housing benefit private renters can claim – the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) – remain frozen as it has been for most of the […]
Keir Starmer promised to ‘house all veterans in housing need’. But Big Issue has learned their support is at risk. Leaders of veterans’ charities providing housing funded by Op FORTITUDE, which has helped more than 1,000 veterans avoid homelessness, say they do not know if they will receive cash for the accommodation beyond March and […]
The building in the city centre will help up 30 people without shelter per night, reports the Liverpool Echo. As the number of people experiencing homelessness in Liverpool continues to increase, a support hub is preparing to reopen for winter. Since January last year, in partnership with Liverpool Council, the Whitechapel Centre has operated a […]
A record number of children are stuck in hotels and B&Bs, reports the Liverpool Echo. Enough children are now homeless and living in temporary accommodation in England to fill a city the size of Oxford, according to “shameful” new figures. In Liverpool alone, 1,327 homeless children are currently in temporary accommodation. Government statutory homelessness figures show […]
One year on from the floods that forced Bootle residents out of their homes, the Liverpool ECHO visited the street to speak to the people affected and examine the impact on the community. “It was like living in Beirut!” says Linda Crilly, 70, as she tries to describe the aftermath of the Bulwer Street flood […]
The housing crisis has reached catastrophic new levels, and Labour is planning to slash affordable housing even further. It doesn’t have to be this way, reports Isra Sulevani for the Guardian. Something that often takes me by surprise is how people react to finding out I was homeless growing up. They have a picture of […]
