Plugging the Great Social Housing Gap
The size of the social housing stock in England has decreased over the past few decades, with about 1.5 million fewer social homes today than there were in 1980, according to Shelter. Figures from Shelter also reveal that 280,000 people in 2019 were recorded as homeless in England, an increase of 23,000 since 2016. But […]
COVID-19 and the rise of homelessness
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced local authorities and housing associations to think quickly as they come up with new solutions to house rough sleepers and those in need of temporary accommodation. Whilst their response has, on the whole, been admirable, we are only at the tip of the iceberg of the coronavirus homelessness problem, and […]