A new analysis shows how government policy led to thousands more overcrowded households in the years ahead of the pandemic.
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Record numbers of people are in work but the number of those in employment and in poverty is also rising.
A survey of food bank users found nearly 60% couldn’t afford to adequately heat their homes.
The government has had to rethink its roll-out of Universal Credit – but small tweaks to the system won’t prevent people on housing benefit from being evicted.
Administrative errors and negative stereotypes lead landlords to discriminate against people on housing benefit.
It was meant to provide a more streamlined and coherent system – but it isn’t working.
The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
Research shows that when the government cuts housing benefit, it harms the mental health of those affected.
High rents and benefits restrictions have led to spiralling costs when it comes to housing London’s homeless.
The budget contained some major housing reforms, but the chancellor had no answer to the sector’s number-one problem.
David Cameron has tried to claim the clothes of social justice for the Conservatives. It’s time he took them off.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow in Social Policy, University of Essex
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Nutrition, King's College London
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Professor of Housing Research and Deputy Director of the NHMRC Centre of Excellence for Healthy Housing, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Director of External Programmes, Centre for Advanced Management Education, University of Stirling
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Senior Research Fellow, University of York
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Associate Professorial Research Fellow in Poverty and Inequality, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, Lancaster University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice, Staffordshire University
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Research fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Associate. CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Fellow, Edge Hill University
