Machine learning technology is transforming industries from healthcare to fashion – but can it also solve homelessness? A team of data scientists backed by the Alan Turing Institute have been working with StreetLink, a homelessness charity, to look into how machine learning can help improve the decision-making process that goes on behind the scenes in […]
A Lancashire council has agreed to gift a development site to a not-for-profit company looking to provide housing for homeless people and armed forces veterans. Building for Humanity is looking to take on a site in Charter Street, Accrington, with a view to building a £3million-plus scheme including 15 one-bedroom apartments, 15 two-bedroom apartments, three […]
The government’s own figures show that a household became homeless every four minutes in England over the past Brexit-dominated year. And the new MHCLG stats also show a new generation of young people and families are being hit by the housing emergency, with 56,440 aged 16 to 24 becoming homeless or threatened with homelessness during […]
Women’s Aid has launched the findings from its annual ‘No Women Turned Away’ project. Through quantitative data collected by specialist practitioners; qualitative interviews with survivors of domestic abuse; and artwork, including photographs and poems; the report illustrates the ‘lived impact’ that unequal access to refuges and support services has had on women. According to the report, 309 […]
Homeless campaigners are furious after a vulnerable rough sleeper was refused entry to Liverpool Council’s homeless shelter because he was from Wirral. The Liverpool Echo reports that outreach workers found the man on the streets and told him about the council’s Labre House shelter in Camden Street – which the authority has continually said will always […]
Manchester council looks set to scrap a controversial ‘aggressive begging’ ban in the city centre after a fierce political backlash earlier this year. The Manchester Evening News reports that the town hall’s Labour leadership plans to remove any reference to begging from the authority’s proposed public space protection order, which intends to introduce £100 fines […]
The government seemingly has no specific ‘poverty plan’ for a no-deal Brexit, despite rising destitution brought on by welfare reform, reports 24 Housing. Instead, DWP minister Justin Tomlinson fell back on ‘the system’ in an evasive written answer to a Commons question from Labour’s Sharon Hodgson – who asked if the DWP has plans for […]
Musician Kin Rich was walking through Birmingham city centre when he heard the flute being played. “When you’re a musician, you hear melodies everywhere. I thought, whoever’s playing this is really talented.” He stopped and spoke to the homeless man, Nathan, who was playing and decided to record the melody. But when he sampled it […]
One of the most senior fire fighters in the UK is sharing her experience of rough sleeping to change their attitudes to homelessness. Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, who starts her new job as head of West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service in September, was made homeless as a teenager. Sabrina and her family experienced extreme poverty […]
A new report from Shelter says the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) freeze should not only end next year as planned but have rates restored to at least the so-called 30th percentile – or cheapest third of local rents. The report From the frontline – Universal Credit and the broken housing safety net also wants a “ robust mechanism” in place to […]
