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Thousands more people dying in poverty in Britain, research reveals
12 November 24
Loughborough University research for Marie Curie finds that more than 111,000 people in the charity’s end-of-life care died in poverty in 2023, up by almost one-fifth from 2019, with 128,000 people dying in fuel poverty in 2022.
Source: Morning Star
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Trapped by debt: How council rules are keeping homeless families in limbo
31 October 24
Oxford Brookes University finds that in December 2023 alone, at least 3,797 households, including 1,500 children and domestic violence victims, were trapped in temporary accommodation because of council rules that render ‘ineligible or deprioritised for social housing’ those in housing-related debt.
Source: Oxford Brookes University
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Minister loses Grenfell brief after complaint from survivors
21 October 24
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali loses her building safety brief after Grenfell survivors complain of her attendance at the Franco-British Colloque, a conference sponsored by Saint-Gobain, a majority owner of Celotex, a firm heavily criticised in the Grenfell inquiry.
Source: Inside Housing
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Two-child limit ‘entrenching poverty’, says new study
20 October 24
A study by Every Penny Counts, commissioned in Scotland, finds that the two-child benefits policy entrenches poverty, with three-quarters of the 160 families interviewed saying that they suffered direct financial hardship as a result, nearly two-thirds forced to use a foodbank and 84.6% forced to skip meals.
Source: Morning Star
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: Scotland
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Deaths of people sleeping rough up 42 per cent as nearly 1,500 homeless people died last year
16 October 24
Research from the Museum of Homelessness finds that deaths of rough sleepers in the UK increased by 42% in a year, with 1,474 people dying while homeless in 2023 (up 12%) and those experiencing homelessness at least three times more likely to remain homeless.
Source: Independent
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Immigration policies ‘virtually guarantee’ destitution and homelessness for thousands in Scotland, study finds
25 September 24
An academic study that includes a survey of 138 people in Scotland with no recourse to public funds or other restricted eligibility for statutory support finds that 93 percent were experiencing homelessness and 97 percent destitution, with government policies described as ‘destitution by design’.
Source: Inside Housing
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK, Scotland
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Rough sleeping reports in Glasgow double in the last year
24 September 24
Homelessness applications from refugees in Glasgow have almost doubled in the last year, rising from 1,384 to 2,709, with other areas in Scotland also facing increases, it is revealed.
Source: Glasgow Times
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK, Scotland
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REPORT | Why cross-subsidy projects can’t solve London’s housing emergency
19 September 24
The Public Interest Law Centre publishes a report detailing how the ‘affordable’ housing options set to replace council-rent homes after estate demolition are instead worsening the housing crisis for working-class Londoners. A guide for residents and organisers challenging estate demolitions is included.
Source: PILC
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Fear after international students attacked with ropes in Cork
7 September 24
International students in Cork, Ireland, say that they fear for their safety after two UCC students report that a group of teenagers abused them, told them to go back to their own country, and threw ropes around their necks.
Source: RTE
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: Ireland
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Grenfell building firm criticised by inquiry handed contracts worth millions after fire
7 September 24
Rydon property group, the lead contractor that oversaw the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower from 2014 to 2016, including the use of combustible cladding, is revealed to have won deals from local councils and the NHS since the 2017 fire, despite interventions by mayor of London Sadiq Khan and housing secretary Robert Jenrick.
Source: Guardian
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Police under pressure to accelerate criminal investigation into Grenfell fire
4 September 24
Police face pressure to accelerate the criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 72 died in 2017, after the public inquiry report exposes decades of failure by central government and egregious behaviour by firms involved in the Tower’s refurbishment.
Source: Guardian
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Companies involved in Grenfell to be barred from public contracts, says Starmer
4 September 24
Keir Starmer apologises in the Commons for state failures over Grenfell and says that companies condemned by the inquiry will no longer be considered for public contracts.
Source: Guardian
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Vital solutions to ending migrant homelessness
1 August 24
NACCOM and Homeless Link publish a policy briefing, Vital solutions to ending migrant homelessness, showing the scale of destitution and homelessness caused by immigration rules and policies. The autumn 2023 rough sleeping count found that 27 percent of rough sleepers were non-British citizens.
Source: Homeless Link
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds
31 July 24
Studies by the LSE reveal that low-income families affected by the benefit cap live on as little as £4 per person per week, often trapped in squalid and unaffordable rented properties. Two-thirds of capped families are single parents with young children.
Source: Guardian
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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Midwives called Asian women in labour ‘princesses’ for asking for pain relief, report finds
28 June 24
An NHS review of West Midlands hospitals raises concerns over racist and discriminatory behaviour towards patients by midwives, including disregard for women whose first language is not English; denial of access to interpreters; instances of senior members of staff calling women in labour ‘Asian princesses’ for requesting pain relief; claims that asylum-seeking women were ‘gaming the system’; and a member of staff mimicking a women who had just lost her baby.
Source: Independent
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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