Today the government has announced an ambitious plan to end rough sleeping within a decade. It is easy to be cynical, particularly when for years we’ve been fed a ...
On a recent visit to a housing project in Glasgow the new government minister with responsibility for homelessness, Heather Wheeler, admitted that she “didn’t know” the reasons for the ...
There have been many things written and said about Cyrille Regis since his untimely death was announced on Monday, but one comment stuck with me. It came from local MEP ...
YMCA Coventry & Warwickshire is calling on local people to take part in their annual ‘Sleep Easy’ fundraising event to raise awareness of youth homelessness and vital funds to ...
Today the chancellor has announced that £44bn will be used to build 300,000 new homes every year by the mid-2020s. As someone who has worked in the field of housing ...
Imagine if your employer told you that, following a review, they were going to make your terms and conditions of employment discretionary. Of course, they’d reassure you, we intend ...
When Theresa May announced that the policy of capping housing benefit payments to LHA rates for supported housing was being abandoned, everyone assumed that the disaster facing the sector had ...
There is a saying that you if you stay working at one place for long enough then sooner or later all the old systems that were swept away for being ...
Today (October 10th) is World Mental Health Day. It also marks the launch of a national and international YMCA campaign to help end the stigma around young people’s mental ...
Do you rent your home from a private landlord? Plenty of people do: 4.5m households, in fact. Indeed between 2002 and 2016, the private rented sector doubled in size – from 10% of households, ...
