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APRIL 20, 2023
Report finds poor social housing is pushing young people into homelessness
A new report from Centrepoint exploring the housing aspirations of young people with experiences of homelessness has found that vulnerable young people are being pushed into homelessness by overcrowding and lack of safety in local authority housing. Centrepoint’s new report, Somewhere to ... Read more
DECEMBER 01, 2021
The charity predicts that as many as 29,000 under-25s face being homeless this year and if the projections are accurate, figures could reach the highest level since 2016, when it started recording these figures. Factors including the end of furlough, a ... Read more
DECEMBER 04, 2020
Housing unaffordable for young people
End Youth Homelessness (EYH) has found that the prohibitive costs associated with private renting are forcing the most vulnerable young people into desperate situations and COVID-19 has pushed even more young people closer to homelessness. According to research conducted by Yorkshire ... Read more
NOVEMBER 06, 2020
Calls on government for action on homelessness
Homelessness charities, human rights groups and politicians are calling on the government to relaunch the ‘everyone in’ strategy to protect thousands of homeless people from the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and to scrap plans to deport foreign rough ... Read more
SEPTEMBER 04, 2020
Call on government to provide £270m for renters to prevent evictions
A coalition of charities and housing trade groups are calling on government to provide an emergency grant and loan package worth up to £270m to support private renters who have fallen into arrears during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelter, the National Residential ... Read more
OCTOBER 24, 2019
ONS show highest year-on-year increase in homeless deaths
In 2018, there were an estimated 726 deaths of homeless people in England and Wales, 129 (22%) more deaths than in 2017 when there were 597 estimated deaths. The increase is statistically significant and represents the largest year-to-year increase in ... Read more
JULY 30, 2019
Talks aimed at resolving a long running dispute between Unite and St Mungo's mediated by Acas have collapsed. It is deeply disappointing that St Mungo's senior management are determined to plough ahead with changes that threaten the very integrity of our ... Read more
MAY 28, 2019
Tackling serious violence needs real investment in preventative services!
Unite has submitted its response to the Home Office's draft plans for a new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence. Whilst Unite is supportive in principle with taking a public health approach to tackling serious ... Read more