🏡 Interested in fair access to housing? Join the I-SPHERE Seminar with Jed Meers from York Law School on 14 May from 11.00 - 12.15! Learn about discrimination in online rental platforms and how to combat it.

Sign up now: i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk/seminars/

#FairHousing #RentalEquality

Structural Injustice & the Law co-edited w/
Jo Wolff coming out UCL Press
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With chapters by Lea Ypi Colm O'Cinneide George Letsas Dr Maeve McKeown Hugh Collins Alan Bogg Nicola Lacey, Vanessa Munro Beth Watts-Cobbe Lynne McMordie, Jude Browne Guy Mundlak

Keep a 👀 today for major housing policy announcement from Humza Yousaf

🧵When Sunak delivered his ‘welfare’ set piece last week, he spoke as if the UK has one social security system, centrally controlled by Westminster, but this has not been the case for some time. york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Delighted to be involved in this exciting project on devolution & social security in the UK - I-SPHERE @ HWU / Heriot-Watt University will be researching the localisation of support for low income families & it's impacts, with Jed Meers & Hayley Bennett. What a team! Watch this space for more

I’ve accidentally kicked being addicted to caffeine as a result of being too ill to drink coffee for a few days. Super fun. So, should I stick with a caffeine free experiment or return to the dark and delicious coffee life…

📢 INVITATION TO TENDER OPPORTUNITY CLOSES FRIDAY 19 APRIL 📢 We’re inviting proposals to undertake econometric modelling to cost a national programme to reduce rough sleeping from hospital & prevent unsafe discharges. For more info and to submit visit 👉 bit.ly/3VUjzgW

Thanks for sharing Change Communication 🙏

It's spring now, and the worst of the energy price spike seems past, but many households will likely struggle again come winter, so we need to put the house in order now.

Smart proposal from my SMF colleagues to replace untargeted pensioner support with a more progressive system

🚨OUT NOW: 'Scrap universal energy subsidies for pensioners to pay for more progressive Warm Homes Discount'

The schemes are currently are poorly targeted and won't be sufficiently generous to help struggling households this coming winter.
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For our next online I-SPHERE @ HWU seminar Jed Meers will be joining us to present his research 'Finding a home online: Platform interfaces and discrimination in the private rented sector'. 14th May, 11am. All welcome, register here: i-sphere.site.hw.ac.uk/event/i-sphere…

Looking for a bit of advice, I have a boy who is just waiting for a rehab bed, however he had a dog, that will need to be looked after, he has no family who could help, does anyone know of any place that would provide fostering services for dogs, TIA.

This is interesting: homelessness is only touched on as a topic by half of universities delivering social work courses, research has found...higher education institutions would like to do more to teach about homelessness but cite barriers👇
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🧵At this year’s conference we need you to help us co-produce a Faculty statement, to send a much-needed message to politicians in this General Election year. People in #inclusionhealth groups deserve better, but we need to capture your voices to make that call for change.