March 2017
Very important news: Ministers to reverse universal credit policy for homeless families
Latest edition of the annual Homelessness Monitor: Homelessness Monitor England 2017.
January 2017
This is very interesting and gives a good historical overview of homelessness - Fifty Years of Homelessness
December 2016
JRF: What is Poverty?
Ideas from Labour about reducing rough sleeping: Labour vows to double number of homes reserved for homeless
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest Monitoring Poverty & Social Exclusion 2016 report in which Chapter 2 deals with housing.
November 2016
Who'd have thought it? Benefit Sanctions: A Policy based on Zeal not Evidence.
An interesting blog - What next for supported housing?
This has been in the news today (16/121/16): The Redfern Review into the Decline of Homes ownership
October 2016
Watch this: BBC: No Place Like Home
Remember the much vaunted Troubled Families Programme? A programme founded on dodgy evidence and now, we are told, with dodgy outcomes. A national evaluation of it has been carried out. To quote from page 69 of the report published by DCLG, National Evaluation of the Troubled Families
Programme,
“The key finding from the impact evaluation using administrative data was that across a wide range of outcomes, covering the key objectives of the programme - employment, benefit receipt, school attendance, safeguarding and child welfare - we were unable to find consistent evidence that the Troubled Families programme had any significant or systematic impact. That is to say, our analysis found no impact on these outcomes attributable to the programme, with observed outcomes for the Troubled Families Programme families being very similar to the outcomes for a matched comparison group of families.”
The Decent Homes Standard is but a fond memory; how about this as something that should be introduced by government: The Living Home Standard?
Excellent piece about the Right to Buy: Where are we now?
September 2016
Excellent JRF strategy to Solve UK Poverty.
